MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: HRC already making excuses for losing 2020

>>6388647

Hillary already making excuses for losing 2020

Notable: April 2019 Update to Sealed Cases

April 2019 Update to #SealedCases

6,049 new 94,399 entered 10/30/17 thru 4/30/19

Avg: 5,244 per month

Back-up files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iBS4WgngH8u8-wAqhehRIWCVBQKD8-5Y

Notable: >>6388711 Clip of Based Barr shutting down Da Nang Dick: "No."

>>6388589

Notable: HRC suggested Democratic presidential candidates call on China to interfere in the 2020 election and hack the IRS for POTUS' tax returns

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton tonight on MSNBC suggested Democratic presidential candidates call on China to interfere in the 2020 election and even hack into the IRS and release President Trump's tax returns

twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1123769459016118274

Notable: POTUS has tweeted 80 Times Today

POTUS has tweeted 80 Times Today

Seven more tweets will bring the total to 87.

1787 was the Constitutional Convention.

Also Q drop #1787 mentioned Common Sense (Thomas Paine)

Rod Rosenstein mentioned Thomas Paine in his letter of resignation.

Time will tell.

Notable: New POTUS Tweet

POTUS TWEET

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123768610810408961

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-real-attorney-general-11556752279

Notable: India's Second Visit To Moon Likely To Begin In July, Says Space Agency

India's Second Visit To Moon Likely To Begin In July, Says Space Agency

The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to release the lander once it is in the Moon orbit and make a soft landing near the South Pole of the moon on September 6.

New Delhi:

The space agency has announced that India's second visit to the Moon under the Chandrayaan-2 mission will most likely be launched between July 9-16 this year.

The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) second mission to the Moon entails an orbiter, a lander and moon rover. The expected soft landing on the moon is likely to take place on September 6, 2019. India's moon rover has been named "Pragyan" or "Knowledge", since India hopes to understand the geology of Earth's closest celestial neighbour through a series of unique experiments.

The Rs. 800-crore mission will be launched using the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk III (GSLV Mk III) from Sriharikota.

According to a statement by ISRO, Chandrayaan-2 has three modules – Orbiter, Lander (Vikram) and Rover (Pragyan). The Orbiter and Lander modules will be interfaced mechanically and stacked together as an integrated module and accommodated inside the GSLV MK-III launch vehicle.

The Rover is housed inside the Lander. After a launch into the earth-bound orbit by GSLV MK-III, the integrated module will reach the Moon's orbit using Orbiter propulsion module. The Lander will then separate from the Orbiter and soft land at the predetermined site close to lunar South Pole. After this, the Rover will roll out to carry out scientific experiments.

Instruments have also also mounted on the Lander and Orbiter for scientific experiments.

India's maiden mission to the Moon took place in 2008 under the Chandryaan-1 mission which also involved hard landing the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on the lunar surface on November 14, 2008.

Chandrayaan-1 gave the first ever signatures of the presence of water molecules on the lunar surface.

The second mission was first delayed because a joint collaboration between India and Russia on the lander unit failed to take off after the Russian lander developed problems. India then had to develop the entire lander module on its own which it named the "Vikram" – after Vikram A Sarabhai, also known as the father of the Indian space programme.

Later, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk-II saw two failures in 2010. The ISRO then found out that the re-configured lander "Vikram" had become too heavy to be lofted using the GSLV Mk-II. When the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk-III, also known as the "Bahubaali" became available, the agency decided to use the India's heaviest launcher for the Chandrayaan-2 mission.

The space agency plans to release the lander once it is in the Moon orbit and make a soft landing near the South Pole of the Moon. No other nation has landed on the near side of the South Pole of the Moon yet.

If India succeeds to make a soft landing on the Moon, it will become the forth country after Russia, USA and China to have achieved this feat.

Chandrayaan-2 is ISRO's first mission to land on any celestial body.

https://www.ndtv.com/science/indias-second-visit-to-moon-likely-to-begin-in-july-says-space-agency-2031557?pfrom=home-topscroll

Notable: WJC and HRC to take the stage in Seattle as speaking tour continues

WJC and HRC to take the stage in Seattle speaking tour continues

Keeping an eye on em’

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/bill-and-hillary-clinton-to-take-the-stage-at-seattles-wamu-theater/

Notable: Christopher Steele Map

Updated web of Steele

if there are any plane crashes next week, think of anon

Notable: Bernie Sanders Pushed False Flag Conspiracy Theory About Domestic Bombings

Bernie Sanders Pushed False Flag Conspiracy Theory About Domestic Bombings

9:00 PM 05/01/2019 | Investigative Group

Peter Hasson | Reporter

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/01/bernie-sanders-false-flag-domestic-bombings/

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed U.S. government agencies may have been behind a string of domestic bombings in 1976.

Sanders floated the conspiracy theory while launching his gubernatorial campaign that year.

Sanders “charged that government agencies like the CIA may in fact be responsible” for the bombings, a Vermont newspaper reported at the time.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders once floated a conspiracy theory about the U.S. government orchestrating domestic bombings for political purposes.

Sanders launched his 1976 campaign for Vermont governor by suggesting that government agencies were behind a string of attempted bombings across the country.

Sanders ran on the Liberty Union ticket — a Vermont political party he co-founded — alongside lieutenant governor candidate John Franco, who also lent credence to the conspiracy theory.

Sanders and Franco “coupled the announcement with a disavowal of terrorist bombings and a charge that many such incidents may be instigated by government agencies to undermine legitimate efforts to bring about change,” the Bennington Banner, a Vermont newspaper, reported at the time.

Two days prior to Sanders’s announcement, eight letter bombs were sent to seven corporations and a business executive across four different cities. Authorities arrested two men, Leon Cordell Horton and Ardis Odell Reed, in 1981 for sending the bombs in what prosecutors said was an attempt to extort money from corporations. Both men were later found guilty.

The Banner’s story made clear the letter bombs and similar domestic attacks were the attacks to which Sanders and Franco reportedly referred as potentially orchestrated by the U.S. government. (Time Magazine noted in 2016 that “protest bombings in America were commonplace” during the 1970s.)

The Banner’s story stated both candidates denounced the “wave of letter bombings aimed at large corporations.”

“Both men said such terrorism is counterproductive to changing the ‘system,’ and charged that government agencies like the CIA may in fact be responsible,” read the Banner’s article, which The Daily Caller News Foundation reviewed in an online newspaper archive.

“Anybody that thinks change is going to come because of bombings or terrorist activity is either extremely stupid, crazy or an agent of the U.S. government,” the paper quoted Sanders saying.

“While [President] Donald Trump raves about a deep state coup and routinely invokes violence when discussing his political opponents, Senator Sanders is proud to have always supported peaceful political change,” a Sanders campaign spokeswoman told TheDCNF in an email.

A request for comment emailed to Franco received an automatic response saying he was out of office.

Attacking intelligence agencies has been a constant feature of Sanders’s political career.

At a 1974 Senate debate — two years prior to his promotion of the false flag conspiracy theory — Sanders said the CIA might be capable of overthrowing the U.S. government, the Banner reported in a contemporaneous article also reviewed by TheDCNF.

“Sanders called the CIA ‘a dangerous institution that has got to go,’ saying the CIA is ‘responsible to nobody except a handful of right-wing lunatics and the big multinational corporate interests,'” the paper reported.

“Sanders said that the CIA has overthrown many foreign governments unfriendly to the U.S. corporations and that they might even be able to overthrow the U.S. government if they chose to,” the Banner’s story added, noting that “Sanders was cheered at one point when he called for immediately disbanding of the CIA.”

When asked about his previous support for abolishing the CIA in 2016, Sanders said he no longer holds that position.

As recently as 2014, Sanders said that the intelligence agencies were “out of control.” (RELATED: 9 Radical Policies 2020 Democrats Are Putting On The Table)

“As you have heard from me, for years now, in my view the intelligence agencies in this country, the [National Security Agency], CIA, are out of control,” he said in an interview.

“We certainly need to know about the torture practiced under the Bush administration and the CIA has got to understand that they work for the American people and the U.S. Congress, they are not an independent entity that can do whatever they want to do,” the Vermont senator added.

Notable: Rachel Maddow, Democrats used misleading Barr video to suggest he lied to Congress, reporter finds

Rachel Maddow, Democrats used misleading Barr video to suggest he lied to Congress, reporter finds

At least the photo kinda makes her look like the demon she is.

Anyone else averaging 2 failed CAPTCHAS b4 getting it right? I'm not much to complain, but frustrating.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rachel-maddow-democrats-used-misleading-barr-video-to-claim-he-lied-to-congress-critics-say

Notable: US Attorney for Utah Huber tweet

ANONS

Honored to have former AUSA and office leader David J. Schwendiman in the office today for a brown bag office alumni visit. Great advice for us shaped by his experiences as an AUSA, a war crimes prosecutor, his work on three Olympics, and @TheJusticeDept's attache in Kabul.

WAR CRIMES

https://twitter.com/DUTnews/status/1123716538249424906

Notable: >>6388143 SYRIA UPDATE

SYRIA UPDATE

Lavrov, Pompeo discuss situation in Syria and return of refugees

“During a phone call, the two sides tackled the humanitarian issues of the situation in Syria, particularly in al-Rukban and al-Hawl camps,” A statement by the Russian foreign Ministry said.

It added the Russian side showed desire to return the refugees to their permanent residence places as soon as possible.

The two sides also discussed the latest developments in Venezuela.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=164768

Syria urges cooperation with North Korea against US economic sanctions

Pak, for his part, said his country attaches great importance to its ties with Syria, and always stands by Syria and supports its stances at various international forums.

The North Korean official then strongly condemned US President Donald Trump’s recognition of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory, emphasizing that Pyongyang considers the Golan Heights as occupied Syrian land.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/05/01/594843/Syria-North-Korea-US-economic-sanctions

Militants Continue Attacks On Russia’s Hmeymim Base In Syria

Militants deployed in the Idlib de-escalation zone attempted to attack Russia’s Hmeymim airbase with multiple-launch rocket systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) 12 times over the past month, the Russian military said on May 1. According to the statement, all the attacks were repelled. No material damage or causalites were caused.

The head of Russia’s Reconciliation Centre in Syria Maj Gen Viktor Kupchishin revealed that 8 of 12 attacks were carried out with UAVs.

https://southfront.org/militants-continue-attacks-on-russias-hmeymim-base-in-syria/

Authorities find weapons and ammo left behind by terrorists in southern region

The weapons included TOW anti-armor missiles which are delivered exclusively to armies via contracts, LAW shoulder-mounted missiles, Malyutka missiles, GPS and visual targeting equipment, visors, blocks of TNT, mortar launchers, RPG shells, offensive and defensive grenades.

The ammo included tens of thousands of assorted types of machinegun, assault rifle, and sniper rifle rounds, as well as mortar and artillery rounds.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=164747

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Notable: Tucker exposes MSNPC cutting-in to "correct" Barr and Graham.

Tucker exposes MSNPC cutting-in to "correct" Barr and Graham

Notable: Americans can't afford to buy a home in 70% of the Country.

Americans Can't Afford To Buy A Home In 70% Of The Country

Even at a time of low interest rates and rising wages, Americans simply can’t afford a home in more than 70% of the country, according to CBS. Out of 473 US counties that were analyzed in a recent report, 335 listed median home prices were more than what average wage earners could afford. According to the report from ATTOM Data Solutions, these counties included Los Angeles and San Diego in California, as well as places like Maricopa County in Arizona.

New York City claimed the largest share of a person's income to purchase a home. While on average, earners nationwide needed to spend only about 33% of their income on a home, residents in Brooklyn and Manhattan need to shell out more than 115% of their income. In San Francisco this number is about 103%. Homes were found to be affordable in places like Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia.

This news is stunning because homes are considerably more affordable today than they were a year ago. Although prices are rising in many areas, they are also falling in places like Manhattan. Unaffordability in the market has been the result of slower home building and owners staying in their homes longer. Both have reduced the supply of homes in the market.

And the market may continue to create better conditions for buyers. Affordability could improve because of the fact that homes are out of reach for so many seekers, according to Todd Teta, chief product officer at ATTOM Data Solutions. Today’s market is also more affordable than it was a decade ago, before the crisis. Home prices were about the same prior to the crisis, even though income adjusted for inflation was lower.

"What kept the market going was looser lending standards, so that was compensating for affordability issues," Teta said. Since then, standards have toughened (for now, at least).

We recently wrote about residents of New York City who simply claimed they couldn’t afford to live there.

More than a third of New York residents complained that they "can't afford to live there" anymore (and yet they do). On top of that, many believe that economic hardships are going to force them to leave the city in five years or less, according to a Quinnipiac poll published a couple weeks ago. The poll surveyed 1,216 voters between March 13 and 18.

In total, 41% of New York residents said they couldn't cope with the city's high cost of living. They believe they will be forced to go somewhere where the "economic climate is more welcoming", according to the report.

Ari Buitron, a 49-year-old paralegal from Queens said: “They are making this city a city for the wealthy, and they are really choking out the middle class. A lot of my friends have had to move to Florida, Texas, Oregon. You go to your local shop, and it’s $5 for a gallon of milk and $13 for shampoo. Do you know how much a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment is? $1700! What’s wrong with this picture?”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-29/americans-cant-afford-buy-home-70-country

See this

Why lower rates didn’t attract more home-buyers to the housing market last week

Lower mortgage rates didn’t attract more homebuyers to the housing market last week.

Mortgage applications fell 4.3% despite a drop in the 30-year fixed mortgage rate from 4.46% to 4.42%, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday. Rates, however, generally have climbed higher the previous month.

Applications to refinance and purchase a home both fell. Mortgage applications for refinancing decreased 5% from the previous week and applications to buy a home dropped 4%. Mortgage applications for purchases were still slightly above year ago levels.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/01/mortgages-mortgage-applications-fall-despite-lower-rates/3640505002/

Notable: Q: Organized Tweet storm.

POTUS has done a lot of tweeting and retweeting today, a tweet storm ?

Notable: POTUS 2 JW videos.

POTUS AGAIN

2 videos

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Notable: Air Force test launches Minuteman missiles.

Minuteman Missiles

When it absolutely, positively has to be there in 30 minutes or less or the next one is FREE!

Notable: POTUS JW and Mark Levin re-Tweets.

POTUS on another roll

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Notable: Eric Trump Tweet has a missing [R].

Eric Trump Tweet Has A Missing [R]

Notable: POTUS re-Tweets Eric Trump.

POTUS on another twatter storm ?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Notable: DJT re-Tweets: Firefighter support and common misconception regarding Mueller's objection.

POTUS retweeting again

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Notable: Planefag: A-10 thunderbolt callsign ATTACK.

a10 thunderbolt callsign ATTACK

Gotta love it, crazy pattern too

Notable: 2020 campaign finance numbers dig broken down for major democrat candidates.

2020 campaign finance numbers dig broken down for major democrat candidates. 

Notes: Color coordinated overlapping contributors, gray is anything I found interesting that may warrant further attention/monitoring

Analysis below. 

Elizabeth Warren: Backed by big tech and somehow her #nativeamerican alma mater, Harvard and Harvard Law School. Lots of other big universities supporting her as well. 

Kamala Harris: Big tech - Facebook and Google, banks (Wells Fargo - notable resignation from them recently), Stanford, Bad Robot = JJ Abrams, CAA is connected to Rahm Emanuel via his brother, Ari Emanuel (he worked at CAA)

PAUL WEISS ET AL - these guys come up all the time and overlap for 2020 donations as well - needs a dig 

Kirsten Gillibrand: HO LY SHIT. Her old law firm gave her $67,852. Graphics for her attached that will blow your mind on this. Quinn, Emanuel et. al. pop up a lot as well - worth digging on them too. 

Beto O'Roark: Nothing sticks out, looks like a lot of corporate and private money.

Cory Booker: More Paul Weiss (total of 4 candidates supported), private/bank money, big tech, Stanford again - representing its interests on the other side of the country, naturally. 

Pete Buttigieg: Man, this is just too much. Big tech, Paul Weiss again, Amazon (deep state candidate anyone? - they didn't donate to any of the other "frontrunners"), the Minnessota Twins (Somali/Muslim run? Pete is Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, quite a ways away. Also another Quinn, Emanuel et. al.. Oh and Pinterest and CBS Television (watch for him on fluff piece interviews on CBS from now on). The biggest one is that his former employer, McKinsey & Company, is bankrolling him again (see Buttigieg graphic)

And some fashion designer from Uruguay based in NYC but runs her family ranch in her home country - #honkhonk !

Tulsi Gabbard: More Stanford, universities, Hindu American Foundation, State of Hawaii, Linkedin 

Joe Biden: No info, yet…

More thoughts: Notice the absence of any Perkins Coie or known Soros outfits like Act Blue, Open Society Foundation etc.. Looks like they're ditching their old tricks in favor of something new - I'm sure we'll smoke them out soon. 

Godspeed Anons!

Notable: >>6387468, >>6387497, >>6387549 Criminal referral filed against Nellie Ohr.

Breaking: Criminal referral filed against Nellie Ohr concerning congressional testimony after emails surface showing election-year contacts with DOJ

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1123743778035109888

Notable: Arrest warrant potentially to be issued for Juan Guaido.

https://twitter.com/IdeologyWars/status/1123742165811830785

Notable: Graham on Mark Levin's show.

Based Graham live now.

Speaking with @marklevinshow at 8:30 pm.

LISTEN LIVE:

http://www.marklevinshow.com/

Notable: US Marines: America’s 911 Force.

America’s 911 Force

twitter.com/USMC/status/1123738875212513280

Notable: PG&E seeks U.S. court approval for $105 mln fund to help wildfire victims.

PG&E seeks U.S. court approval for $105 mln fund to help wildfire victims

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 (Reuters) - PG&E Corp on Wednesday sought court approval for a $105 million fund to help house victims of the wildfires blamed on the bankrupt California power provider.

PG&E in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco said the fund would cover housing and other urgent needs for many who lost homes in the wildfires in 2017 and 2018.

The department said in a report on Wednesday the Camp Fire displaced 83 percent of Paradise's population, contributing to an increase of more than 19,000 people in the population of nearby Chico, which marked the largest numeric population change of any California city last year.

PG&E said its Wildfire Assistance Program was intended for wildfire victims who did not have insurance for their homes or whose insurance for alternate living expenses will be exhausted.

The investor-owned power provider filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January in anticipation of potentially billions of dollars in liabilities stemming from wildfires in California linked to or suspected to be linked to its equipment.

San Francisco-based PG&E in its filing said it believes it is probable that authorities will find its equipment sparked November's Camp Fire, California's most destructive and deadliest fire of modern times.

PG&E said it will enter into discussions with committees representing unsecured creditors and wildfire victims in its bankruptcy to find an administrator for its proposed fund as soon as possible.

If no agreement on an administrator is reached, PG&E said it would ask U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali to let it appoint one.

PG&E will ask Montali at a May 22 hearing to give it the green light to establish its proposed fund.

https://www.nasdaq.com/article/pge-seeks-us-court-approval-for-105-mln-fund-to-help-wildfire-victims-20190501-01467

Notable: New York City babies aborted after 21 weeks outnumber homicides.

From Breitbart: New York City Babies aborted after 21 Weeks Outnumber Homicides

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/30/new-york-city-babies-aborted-after-21-weeks-outnumbered-homicides/

The number of babies aborted in New York City at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy outnumbered homicide victims in 2015.

According to the most recent abortion data available for 2015 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and published by the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the number of abortions at or after 21 weeks was 1,485 while the number of homicide victims was 352.

Notable: Barr makes Da Nang sweat.

>>6386794

He also freaked Da Nang out with moar investigations

I reviewed the tape anons. Da Nang Dick was triggered by Bill during questioning. He kept pestering Bill about the "12-14 cases spawned or spun off from the Mueller investigation". Bill gets sick of it and drops 12- 18 cases. Da Nang sits there for a 3 count, with a shoulder slump, a heavy sigh and breakage of eye contact. Once he remembers he's on TV he gets loud trying to hide the fear. Nothing can stop what is coming Da Nang

Stupid Mazie and that other cocksucker Whitehouse kept saying 14 14 14, trying to see if Bill would correct them. Bill ignored and let em sweat. I like anons theory about Da Nang being one of the referrals. Pic related Fox for the captions but had to go to Compost for Dickie's reaction shot.

All PB

>>6383207

>>6383296

>>6383319

>>6383437

>What is this cocksucker getting at?

>Seemed like he was fishing for info on the referred cases. And he got some. I think the number of referred cases was 12. Barr dropped 18 and Dick got upset

>now that's noteworthy

>possibly confirmed. Stupid Mazie reading her talking points just read 14 referrals

Notable: Based Grassley, spits fire.

>>6386790

Reposting as requested

https://twitter.com/FaithandFootbal/status/1123702064520073217

Notable: Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.

HOLY SHIT guys..looks like another case of nothing happening..

Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Espionage

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-commit-espionage

"A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer pleaded guilty today to conspiring to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director for Counterintelligence John Brown of the FBI and Assistant Director in Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office made the announcement after Senior U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III accepted the plea.

According to court documents, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, left the CIA in 2007 and began residing in Hong Kong. In April 2010, two Chinese intelligence officers (IOs) approached Lee and offered to pay him for national defense information he had acquired as a CIA case officer. The IOs also told Lee they had prepared for him a gift of $100,000 cash, and they offered to take care of him “for life” in exchange for his cooperation."

Notable: >>6386402 UK has fingerprints everywhere (flowchart)

>>6386213

UK has fingerprints everywhere

Notable: Judge orders Robert Kraft to appear at next court hearing

Judge orders Robert Kraft to appear at next hearing in court

https://turnto10.com/news/local/judge-orders-kraft-to-appear-at-next-hearing

Notable: China Hands Death, Suspended Death Sentences to Canadian, US Citizens

China Hands Death, Suspended Death Sentences to Canadian, US Citizens

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/sentences-05012019173502.html

Notable: >>6386201, >>6386214, >>6386230 FBI Docs open new doors & DIGG request on Cassandra Fairbanks

>>6385982

>What Barr does know is the “Russia hacked the DNC and Podesta and sent them to Wikileaks” narrative that is baked into the Mueller Report is bullshit

What fathers love?

Was Q referencing POTUS?

That was the assumption

I believe it could have been a reference to Gen Flynn and Flynn Jr who got tied in the Seth Rich/Guccifer mess with the Fake MAGAs

FBI document cache sheds light on inner workings of Russia’s U.S. news (and propaganda) network

www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-document-cache-sheds-light-inner-workings-russias-u-s-news-propaganda-network-172317008.html

Bread 3690

>>2917551

I think Cassandra Fairbanks needs more digging.

1. Q mentioned Guccifer today / IMO, that seemed unusual /Fairbanks has a history with Guccifer

2. Q linked to a Fairbanks tweet previosuly regarding Antifa / odd to me given the other choices available to support his comment

3. Q has linked often to Gateway Pundit, which IMO is clickbait and they just copy info from others and aren't really news or journalism / Fairbanks works for GP

4. Fairbanks is very close to Posobiec/Stone/Cernovich and others / see pic of Kavanaugh hearing

5. Also, she worked with Lee Stranahan at Sputnik News

6. She is a common person to many we have looked into / but she, IMO has not fully been looked into

7. Fairbanks is obsessed / I mean OBSESSED in an unhealthy way, with Julian Assange

twitter.com/CassandraRules

sputniknews.com/authors/cassandra_fairbanks/

bigleaguepolitics.com/author/cassandra/

Snip 11

The packet of information Fionda provided to the Justice Department focused on two Sputnik employees: Cassandra Fairbanks and Lee Stranahan.

Fairbanks / Stranahan / Stone / Assange / Flynn Jr / Seth Rich / Hannity / NoName all referenced in article

"Stranahan came to Sputnik in April. He previously had worked at the conservative website Breitbart, under Trump’s former campaign guru and adviser Steve Bannon. The month before he joined Sputnik, Stranahan sent out a tweet boasting that he was the one who “introduced” former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone to Guccifer 2.0, the hacker who obtained emails from the Democratic National Committee that were published by WikiLeaks."

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Notable: New NRA president, Carolyn Meadows, from Marietta, GA is a pioneer in Georgia Republican politics.

New NRA president, Carolyn Meadows, from Marietta, GA is a pioneer in Georgia Republican politics.

https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/new-nra-president-from-marietta-political-survivor/S9zzdwu8sajWsVcARlbg6M/

Notable: Atlanta dodges the liberal straw ban bullet (whew!)

Atlanta dodges the liberal straw ban bullet

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/plan-eliminate-plastics-fulton-county-buildings-delayed/jyTGv1FNsSuiIsHmZ2n16I/

Notable: Florida teachers can arm themselves under new gun bill

BIG!

Florida teachers can arm themselves under new gun bill

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-florida/florida-teachers-can-arm-themselves-under-new-gun-bill-idUSKCN1S74GZ

Notable: >>6386022, >>6385843 Moar planefag updates, including GITMO run

USAF G5 VENUS41 Andrews to Boston

>>6385443 (lb)

Notable: AG Barr declines to testify before HJC

Finally….sauce

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/barr-declines-testify-house-judiciary-committee-n1000951

Notable: Saudi Arabia offers Abbas $10bn to accept US peace plan

Saudi Arabia offers Abbas $10bn to accept US peace plan

Saudi Arabia offered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas $10 billion to accept the US’ so called ‘deal of the century’, Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper reported yesterday.

Discussing details of a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Abbas, the newspaper said “according to information obtained by Al-Akhbar, Salman briefed Abbas about the details of the deal of the century and asked him to accept it. According to the information, Salman asked Abbas: What is the annual budget of your entourage? Abbas replied: I’m not a prince to have my own entourage.”

Bin Salman then offered Abbas $10 billion over a period of ten years if he accepts the US peace plan and has the Palestinian government’s base in Abu Dis instead of occupied Jerusalem.

Abbas, however, rejected the offer and said it would “mean the end of my political life,” the report added.

Officials in Ramallah have refused to comment on the revealation.

Abbas explained that the situation on ground leaves him unable to make any concessions on the illegal settlements, the two-state solution and Jerusalem. Abbas confirmed to the Saudi prince that the Americans would not make any sort of written or serious proposals, warning that if the PA is forced to accept an unsuitable proposal, it would dissolve its institutions forcing Israel to take responsibility of the occupied territories.

On 23 April, senior US presidential advisor, Jared Kushner, said that the American peace proposal would be unveiled after the Muslim month of fasting which ends in early June. “We’re going to wait until after Ramadan now,” he said.

Kushner stressed that the deal was not an effort to impose “US will on the region [Middle East]”.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190501-saudi-arabia-offers-abbas-10bn-to-accept-us-peace-plan/

Shekels can buy anything the cabal wants

Notable: PF report-Army VIP G5 R1944 Andrews to NYC

Army VIP G5 R1944 Andrews to NYC

>>6385487

Notable: The White House wants to end TPS for Nicaraguans. Two Miami lawmakers want to keep it

The White House wants to end TPS for Nicaraguans. Two Miami lawmakers want to keep it

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article229895134.html#storylink=cpy

Notable: F-35s Deployed with Wrong Spare Parts Amid Supply Chain Failures, GAO Finds

F-35s Deployed with Wrong Spare Parts Amid Supply Chain Failures, GAO Finds

Because of modifications to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet, spare parts that the U.S. Marine Corps took on its recent deployment overseas were not compatible with its fifth-generation fighters, according to a new watchdog report.

The lapse in supply chain management is one of myriad reasons the F-35 stealth jet fleet, operated across three services, is falling short of its performance and operational requirements, according to officials with the Government Accountability Office.

In a report published last week, the GAO found that spare parts shortages contributed to the F-35's overall lower-than-desired mission-capable rate.

"While DoD is taking various actions to improve F-35 spare parts availability so that aircraft can fly and perform their missions, it will likely continue to struggle to meet warfighter requirements – due to how it is planning for and allocating spare parts," the GAO said.

"F-35 aircraft were unable to fly nearly 30 percent [between] the May-November 2018 time period due to spare parts shortages," according to a summary finding in the report. Furthermore, the Pentagon "had a repair backlog of about 4,300 F-35 parts" in that timeframe, it said.

Only 27 percent of all F-35s were fully mission capable (FMC), or able to complete all of their missions in a wartime or training scenario. Roughly 50 percent of the fleet was considered mission capable (MC), or able to perform at least one of their core functions, the report said.

The GAO said the Pentagon's minimum target for full mission capability should hover around 60 percent, while its day-to-day mission-capable rate should be 75 percent.

The news comes as each service is rushing to meet former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' requirement to raise mission-capable rates for four key tactical aircraft – the F-16 Fighting Falcon, F/A-18 Hornet, F-22 Raptor and the F-35 – to 80 percent by the end of fiscal 2019.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/29/f-35s-deployed-wrong-spare-parts-amid-supply-chain-failures-gao-finds.html

Notable: U.S. Fed sees no strong case for hiking or cutting rates

U.S. Fed sees no strong case for hiking or cutting rates

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates steady and signaled little appetite to adjust them any time soon, taking heart in continued job gains and economic growth and the likelihood that weak inflation will edge higher.

“We think our policy stance is appropriate at the moment; we don’t see a strong case for moving it in either direction,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said in a press conference following the end of the central bank’s latest two-day policy meeting.

Overall, he said, “I see us on a good path for this year.”

Fed policymakers said ongoing economic growth, a strong labor market and an eventual rise in inflation were still “the most likely outcomes” as the U.S. expansion nears its 10-year mark.

“The labor market remains strong … economic activity rose at a solid rate” in recent weeks, the Fed said in a policy statement a day after President Donald Trump called on it to cut rates by a full percentage point and take other steps to stimulate the economy.

The policy statement, and particularly Powell’s insistence the Fed saw no compelling reason to consider a rate cut in response to weak inflation, prompted a modest selloff in stock markets and pushed bond yields higher. The S&P 500 index fell 0.75 percent, its largest daily decline since mid-March.

Interest rate futures also reversed direction, signaling a lower degree of confidence the next Fed move would be a rate cut, exactly the point Powell was driving at in a “stay-the-course” message, said analysts at Cornerstone Macro.

“Nothing of what the (Federal Open Market Committee) did today … should be read as a signal that a future change in policy is coming.”

The Fed also trimmed the amount of interest it pays banks on excess reserves to 2.35 percent from 2.40 percent in an effort to ensure its key overnight lending rate, the federal funds rate, remains within the current target band.

(this is so the money stays free-flowing to the system and nothing moar-they need a spread and this ensures it)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed/u-s-fed-sees-no-strong-case-for-hiking-or-cutting-rates-idUSKCN1S735L

Notable: Protesters disrupt House session over sanctuary cities bill, in Florida

Protesters disrupt House session over sanctuary cities bill, in Florida

https://www.wftv.com/news/florida/protesters-disrupt-house-session-over-sanctuary-cities-bill/945410991?utm_source=homestream&utm_medium=site_navigation&utm_campaign=homestream_click

Notable: Watch this from @tedcruz. He's absolutely right

Watch this from @tedcruz. He's absolutely right.

twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1123695427054862337

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1123663729676054528

Notable: Hundreds of thousands of bees killed after hives attacked & set on fire

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1123694179144601600

Notable: Army VIP G5 R1944 departs Andrews immediately after VENUS41

Army VIP G5 R1944 departs Andrews immediately after VENUS41

>>6385443

Notable: IAFF DIDN'T LIKE POTUS TWEETING ABOUT CA 'WILDFIRES' so they endorsed Biden?

IAFF DIDN'T LIKE POTUS TWEETING ABOUT CA 'WILDFIRES' so they endorsed biden?

https://www.statter911.com/2018/11/11/iaff-says-president-trumps-ca-wildfire-comments-are-reckless-and-insulting/

http://www.pure-spirit.com/more-animal-symbolism/401-bee

Notable: Don’t Call it a Coup. Venezuelans Have a Right to Replace an Oppressive, Toxic Regime.

Don’t Call it a Coup. Venezuelans Have a Right to Replace an Oppressive, Toxic Regime.

West Wing Reads

https://www.whitehouse.gov/westwingreads/

“Tuesday’s uprising is not a ‘coup attempt,’ as the Maduro regime, echoed by too many people abroad, calls it. Rather, it is the latest in a series of legitimate and, for the most part, nonviolent efforts by Venezuelans, both civilian and military, to throw off an oppressive, toxic regime so that they can freely elect a legitimate government,” The Washington Posteditorial board writes.

“Supporters of freedom and democracy should stand in solidarity with Mr. Guaidó and the many thousands of Venezuelans now bravely asserting their rights.”

Click here to read more.

🎬 Watch: A message to all the patriotic citizens of Venezuela

Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaido “and his supporters are now trying to save their country from Maduro’s misrule. If the military does indeed defect this week, forcing Maduro to leave, Guaido has pledged to quickly prepare Venezuela for real elections,” Eli Lake writes in Bloomberg. “That’s not an anti-democratic coup. It’s a democratic rescue mission.”

“Bad enough that The New York Times published what one of the paper’s own columnists called a ‘despicable’ cartoon containing so many anti-Jewish images that ‘the only thing missing was a dollar sign,’” the New York Post editorial board writes. “Worse, it took more than 24 hours of controversy before the Times saw fit to apologize — after first offering a feeble ‘editor’s note’ citing only ‘an error in judgment.’”

“Border Patrol agents stationed on the U.S-Mexico border arrested a group of 424 people who illegally crossed into New Mexico on Tuesday morning. Authorities said the group is the largest ever apprehended at once,” Anna Giaritelli reports in the Washington Examiner. “Border Patrol’s parent agency, Customs and Border Protection, said the groups are not traveling to the U.S. on their own, they are paying human smugglers and cartels to get them into the U.S.”

“Fifty years ago the U.S. led humanity to the moon,” Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan writes in The Wall Street Journal. “To borrow the words of the plaque left on the lunar surface by Apollo 11: ‘We came in peace for all mankind.’ China and Russia make no such claim. Until they credibly commit to such a course, we must ensure our nation’s military remains the most advanced on Earth—and above it.”

Notable: Louisiana House to debate lethal injection secrecy bill

Louisiana House to debate lethal injection secrecy bill

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/1/louisiana-house-to-debate-lethal-injection-secrecy/

Notable: U.S. hospital set to euthanize elderly woman who says on video ‘I want to live’

U.S. hospital set to euthanize elderly woman who says on video ‘I want to live’

May 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A 64-year-old woman with lung cancer is allegedly at risk of being euthanized by a Minnesota hospital, despite having stated emphatically from her hospital bed in a video that is now going viral that she wants to live.

A hospital representative had apparently asked Catie Cassidy if she wanted to “pull the plug.”

“I said NO!” Cassidy exclaimed, recounting the exchange in a video. "I want to live," she said a little later.

She is captured on video, having told the chaplain for Fairview Hospital in Edina, Minnesota — reportedly sent by the hospital to prepare her to be euthanized — that she does not want her oxygen removed and that she wants to live.

The hospital had planned to withdraw Cassidy’s oxygen Wednesday morning, according to Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF), which would result in Cassidy’s death by suffocation.

LLDF Executive Director Alexandra Snyder told LifeSiteNews that Cassidy’s healthcare proxy was to meet with the hospital at 11 a.m. Central Time, and that specifics were still forthcoming.

The legal group released the video of Cassidy sharing how she pleaded for her life Tuesday, and said it is pleading with the hospital to provide Cassidy proper care while reviewing legal options.

source: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/u.s.-hospital-set-to-euthanize-elderly-woman-who-says-on-video-i-want-to-live

Notable: Southcomm is observing situation in Venezuela

https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/1123684802379513858

Notable: >>6385443 Planefag updates

GTMO844 Heading out

Notable: massive fire at recycling plant in Knoxville, TN

https://twitter.com/PMBreakingNews/status/1123688569913204737

Notable: U.S. House panel aims for May 15 hearing on Boeing 737 MAX

U.S. House panel aims for May 15 hearing on Boeing 737 MAX - sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is tentatively planning a May 15 hearing on the now grounded Boeing 737 MAX and the Federal Aviation Administration's aircraft certification program, three people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Representative Peter DeFazio, who chairs the panel, declined to comment on the date. DeFazio told reporters on Tuesday he planned to hold a hearing on the Boeing 737 MAX and the certification process in the near future.

The hearing is expected to include Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell, National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt and Earl Lawrence, who was named executive director of the FAA's Aircraft Certification Service in 2018, the sources said.

Last month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao named a panel of experts to a blue-ribbon committee to review the aircraft certification process after two deadly Boeing 737 MAX crashes killed nearly 350 people.

In a March 28 memo to Elwell reviewed by Reuters, Chao said she wanted an "action plan" from the FAA "to reassure congressional oversight committees that the FAA's culture of safety remains not only robust but forward-looking" and to restore "public trust in aviation safety."

She also asked what "measures are needed to reinforce the culture of safety and constantly improve the FAA's oversight functions and offices, including the certification process."

The FAA has for decades delegated some certification duties to Boeing and other manufacturers.

Separately, Senate Commerce Committee chairman Roger Wicker told Reuters on Wednesday he still plans to call Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg to testify at a future date. "I think he'll want to," Wicker said.

Federal prosecutors, the Transportation Department’s inspector general and lawmakers are investigating the FAA’s certification of the 737 MAX 8 aircraft. A joint review by 10 governmental air regulators of the Max's certification started on Monday in Seattle. Sumwalt said in March the NTSB was also examining the certification process "to ensure any deficiencies are captured and addressed."

Boeing has told some 737 MAX owners it is targeting U.S. FAA approval of its software fix as early as late May and the ungrounding of the aircraft around mid-July, two sources told Reuters last month. Boeing has not yet formally submitted the software fix to the FAA for approval.

U.S. carriers have canceled flights because of the 737 MAX grounding through early August.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/u-house-panel-aims-may-15-hearing-boeing-201105745–finance.html

Notable: President Trump will be interviewed TONIGHT by Trish Regan

President Trump will be interviewed TONIGHT by Trish Regan

Notable: Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business

Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business

Insists that monitoring Clinton’s illicit use of private email ‘wasn’t really part of my job,’ but adds, ‘I wish she had used a State Department account’

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released the transcript of a court-ordered deposition of Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor and deputy chief of staff when she was secretary of state, in which the top staffer admits that both he and Clinton used her unsecure non-government email system to conduct official State Department business. A full transcript of the deposition is available here.

Judicial Watch’s court-ordered discovery centered upon whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a non-government email system and whether the State Department adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request.

In the questioning, Sullivan admitted that he had used his personal Gmail account at times for State Department business but denied that he had sent classified information to Secretary Clinton’s unsecured personal system.

After Judicial Watch pointed out that on January 26, 2010, Sullivan sent a classified email with the subject line “call sheet,” Sullivan testified: “When I sent this email, my best judgment was that none of the material in it was classified, and I felt comfortable sending the email on an unclassified system. The material has subsequently been upclassified but at the time that I sent it, I did not believe that it was classified.”

Sullivan said in the deposition that he had not been concerned about Clinton’s use of a non-government email account, because it was not part of his job:

Like Secretary Clinton has said herself, I wish she had used a State Department account. It wasn’t really part of my job to be thinking about Secretary Clinton’s emails so I don’t think I sort of fell down directly in my job, but do I wish I had thought of it during the time we were at State. Of course. I mean, what human being at this point wouldn’t have thought of that?

Sullivan’s deposition is part of United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s order for senior officials — including Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Jacob Sullivan, and FBI official E.W. Priestap – to respond under oath to Judicial Watch questions.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/102119/

Notable: BREAKING: Large police presence reported at Las Vegas high school

BREAKING: Large police presence reported at Las Vegas high school

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1123688276857167872

Notable: Nicholas Sandmann files $275 mil defamation suit against MSNBC & NBC

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1123691116010901504

Notable: >>6385181 BREAKING: Military Plane Crashes in Oklahoma

Notable: Missing Children’s Statistics, where are the children?!

Missing Children’s Statistics

https://globalmissingkids.org/awareness/missing-children-statistics/

Notable: Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough

>>6385007

Repost of Global Notable

ALL BAKERS

Do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough.

Graphics compiling them are ok to put in notables, but do NOT put the non-tripcode Q posts into notables.

This is what Q said to do.

Thanks o7

Notable: Glenn Simpson and Lisa Holtyn attended the same conference, the Wilton Park Conference, between June 25 - 27, 2009

Glenn Simpson and Lisa Holtyn attended the same conference, the Wilton Park Conference, between June 25 - 27, 2009, which was hosted in co-operation with Home Office.

https://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/s09-5-programme.pdf

https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1123491624523374592

Notable: >>6385064 John Solomon Nellie Ohr's 'Hi Honey' emails

First came the text messages between FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which gave us a painful glimpse at potential political bias inside America’s most famous crime-fighting bureau.

Now, a series of “Hi Honey” emails from Nellie Ohr to her high-ranking federal prosecutor-husband and his colleagues raise the prospect that Hillary Clinton-funded opposition research was being funneled into the Justice Department during the 2016 election through a back-door marital channel. It's a tale that raises questions of both conflict of interest and possible false testimony.

Ohr has admitted to Congress that, during the 2016 presidential election, she worked for Fusion GPS — the firm hired by Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to perform political opposition research — on a project specifically trying to connect Donald Trump and his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to Russian organized crime.

Now, 339 pages of emails, from her private account to Department of Justice (DOJ) email accounts, have been released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch.

They clearly show that Ohr sent reams of open-source intelligence to her husband, Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, and on some occasions to at least three DOJ prosecutors: Lisa Holtyn, Ivana Nizich and Joseph Wheatley.

The contents tracked corruption developments in Russia and Ukraine, including intelligence affecting Russian figures she told Congress she had tried to connect to Trump or Manafort.

“Hi Honey, if you ever get a moment you might find the penultimate article interesting — especially the summary in the final paragraph,” Nellie Ohr emailed her husband on July 6, 2016, in one typical communication. The article and paragraph she flagged suggested that Trump was a Putin stooge: “If Putin wanted to concoct the ideal candidate to service his purposes, his laboratory creation would look like Donald Trump.” Nellie Ohr bolded that key sentence for apparent emphasis.

Such overt political content flowing into the email accounts of a DOJ charged with the nonpartisan mission of prosecuting crimes is jarring enough. It raises additional questions about potential conflicts of interest when it is being injected by a spouse working as a Democratic contractor trying to defeat Trump, and she is forwarding her own research to his department and co-workers.

For instance, the same July 6, 2016, email that forwarded the anti-Trump screed also included research on an oligarch named Rinat Akhmetov, a Ukrainian that Nellie Ohr told Congress she was researching for Fusion for possible ties to Trump.

“Rinat Akhmetov is someone who also was associated with Manafort. Now, he’s Ukrainian, and right now, I can't remember whether people explicitly, you know, pointed to particular organized crime activity that he’s suspected of,” she testified.

Other emails that Nellie Ohr forwarded to her husband and the other DOJ officials contained links to open-source information, such as news articles and academic research, that would later surface as evidence of alleged collusion between Trump and Russia. They included that:

then-Russian ambassador to Washington Sergey Kislyak attended an April 2016 foreign policy speech by Trump. Former Attorney General Jeff Session eventually was forced to recuse himself from the Russia investigation as attorney general in part because he met Kislyak at that speech;

then-Trump campaign adviser Carter Page gave a July 2016 speech in Moscow. Nellie Ohr bolded a passage in the article noting Page’s company “continues to work with Russian investments” and included someone tied to the Russian energy giant GazProm….

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/441580-nellie-ohrs-hi-honey-emails-to-doj-about-russia-collusion-should-alarm-us#.XMoCeaNTrcY.twitter

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1123686794300669952

Notable: Atlantic hit piece re:memes

Has this been in the notables yet? Hit piece from Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/california-synagogue-shooting-worse-you-thought/588352/

Notable: USSS Welcomes New Director James Murray

https://twitter.com/SecretService/status/1123683013018177536?s=19

Notable: How Huma met Hillary

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3891194/How-Hillary-Clinton-massaged-embarrassed-Huma-Abedin-s-shoulders-intimate-Chappaqua-jealous-Chelsea-treats-Huma-undisguised-contempt.html

2 min clip of huma on how she met hrc

Notable: Antifa being investigated.

Antifa being investigated.

Notable: White House ordered full security sweep over listening device threat after moving to designate muslim brotherhood as islamic terrorist

White House ordered full security sweep over listening device threat after moving to designate muslim brotherhood as islamic terrorist

https://twitter.com/NetworksManager/status/1123595306795450371

Notable: Sri Lanka: US-Saudi Terror Links to Deadly Easter Bombings

Sri Lanka: US-Saudi Terror Links to Deadly Easter Bombings

As predicted, the Sri Lankan Easter Day blasts which killed hundreds and injured hundreds more – have been connected to the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS).

US Ambassador to Sri Lanka – Alaina Teplitz – would openly claim foreign groups were most likely behind the attacks. Reuters in an article titled, “Foreign groups likely behind Sri Lanka attacks, U.S. ambassador says,” would report:

The scale and sophistication of the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka suggested the involvement of an external group such as Islamic State, the U.S. ambassador said on Wednesday as the death toll jumped to 359.

ISIS itself would also later claim responsibility for the attacks. The Washington Post in an article titled, “Sri Lankan Easter bombings, claimed by ISIS, show the group maintains influence even though its caliphate is gone,” would claim:

On Tuesday, video emerged of the suspected ringleader of the attacks and seven followers, their faces obscured by scarves, swearing allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Islamic State also issued a formal communique asserting responsibility for the attacks, which it said targeted Christians and “coalition countries.”

Absent from US diplomatic statements and Western media reports is any mention of ISIS’ inception, its state sponsors, and even admissions by Western intelligence agencies themselves of Washington and its allies’ role in the terrorist organization’s rise.

More

https://21stcenturywire.com/2019/04/30/sri-lanka-us-saudi-terror-behind-deadly-blasts/

Notable: The stage is set

the stage is set

Barr is boss and Senator Graham now has them in full panic

Attorney General William Barr: "The letter's a bit snitty and I think it was probably written by one of his staff people.

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1123677525861916675?s=21

Notable: TN lawmakers capitulate to Taylor Swift, Amazon & NFL by withdrawing bill that would allow Faith-based adoption agencies to refuse to place children with LGBT families.

TN lawmakers capitulate to Taylor Swift, Amazon & NFL by withdrawing bill that would allow Faith-based adoption agencies to refuse to place children with LGBT families.

Notable: Venezuela: thousands of Venezuelans are now marching through the streets of #Caracas against Maduro

Venezuela: thousands of Venezuelans are now marching through the streets of #Caracas against Maduro

Notable: New House Bill Would Bar Israel From Using U.S. Military Aid to Detain Palestinian Children

New House Bill Would Bar Israel From Using U.S. Military Aid to Detain Palestinian Children

New legislation proposed by Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat, would ban Israel from using any of the billions of dollars in military assistance it receives from the United States every year to pay for the detention, interrogation, or torture of Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank.

Israel’s military typically arrests and prosecutes 500 to 700 Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 17 each year, subjecting them to coercive interrogation, physical violence, and trials in military courts that lack basic guarantees of due process.

McCollum’s bill, HR 2407, would amend the Foreign Assistance Act to prohibit funding for the military detention of children in any country, including Israel. The proposed law would also provide $19 million a year to American, Israeli, and Palestinian nongovernmental organizations to monitor the treatment of children detained by Israel’s army and offer physical and psychological treatment.

“Israel’s system of military juvenile detention is state-sponsored child abuse designed to intimidate and terrorize Palestinian children and their families,” McCollum said in a statement on Wednesday. “It must be condemned, but it is equally outrageous that U.S. tax dollars in the form of military aid to Israel are permitted to sustain what is clearly a gross human rights violation against children.”

In dry legislative language, the factual findings section of the bill paints a devastating picture of injustice sponsored by American taxpayers:

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, there are two separate legal systems, with Israeli military law imposed on Palestinians and Israeli civilian law applied to Israeli settlers. Approximately 2,900,000 Palestinians live in the West Bank, of which around 45 percent are children under the age of 18, who have lived their entire lives under Israeli military occupation.

Since 2000, more than 10,000 Palestinian children have been subject to the Israeli military court system. Israeli security forces detain children under the age of 12 for interrogation for extended periods of time even though prosecution of children under 12 is prohibited by Israeli military law.

The bill notes that Human Rights Watch reported in 2018 that Israel’s security forces detained Palestinian children “often using unnecessary force, questioned them without a family member present, and made them sign confessions in Hebrew, which most did not understand.” Such detentions, the same group discovered in 2015, “included the use of chokeholds, beatings, and coercive interrogation on children between the ages of 11 and 15 years.”

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/01/betty-mccollum-israel-palestine-children-bill/

Now you've been polarized into the left right paradigm can you support what is right?

Notable: Dem. Gov. Maine, Janet Mills, signed a bill into law that makes Columbus Day known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Dem. Gov. Maine, Janet Mills, signed a bill into law that makes Columbus Day known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/01/maine-changes-columbus-day-to-indigenous-peoples-day/

Notable: French police fire tear gas at May Day protesters in Paris

French police fire tear gas at May Day protesters in Paris

https://nypost.com/2019/05/01/french-police-fire-tear-gas-at-may-day-protesters-in-paris/

Notable: Students in blackface in two states prompt walkout, unrest

Students in blackface in two states prompt walkout, unrest

(Notice pic. for article was whitewashed)

https://nypost.com/2019/05/01/students-in-blackface-in-two-states-prompt-walkout-unrest/

Notable: How Companies and Allies of One Powerful Democrat Got $1.1 Billion in Tax Breaks

How Companies and Allies of One Powerful Democrat Got $1.1 Billion in Tax Breaks

CAMDEN, N.J. — On a blustery day here in early March, a waterfront amphitheater in one of America’s poorest cities became the unlikely venue for a rare public performance by New Jersey’s top political boss.

George E. Norcross III, a silver-haired insurance broker who is widely regarded as the most powerful unelected official in New Jersey, showed up at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden to tout the “rebirth” of his long-suffering hometown and praise the state tax break program that made it possible.

“It looks to me like the state got a pretty good deal,” said Norcross, standing before projected photos of children cavorting in what appears to be an idyllic Camden, only blocks away from streets lined with dilapidated buildings.

In an interview a few weeks later, Norcross called himself “one of the loudest cheerleaders” for the embattled tax break program. “I’m certainly very proud to be part of it,” he said.

Norcross and his associates have reaped substantial benefits from the tax breaks. Of the $1.6 billion in tax breaks for companies that agreed to make a capital investment in Camden, at least $1.1 billion went to Norcross’ own insurance brokerage, his business partnerships and charitable affiliations, and clients of the law and lobbying firms of his brother Philip, an investigation by WNYC and ProPublica found.

Camden reaped more than four times as many tax breaks as the combined amounts of other cities designated as “growth zones,” according to data from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.

Many of those benefits are a direct result of state legislation that Norcross was instrumental in getting passed in 2013. One influential lawmaker remembered the bill as “George’s baby.” Philip Norcross helped draft key amendments in 2014, and brother Donald Norcross — then a state senator and now a member of Congress — co-sponsored the bill.

A panoramic view of the waterfront shows the range of Norcross’ influence within the program, which is run by the state Economic Development Authority and is now in the crosshairs of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.

On the banks of the Delaware River, a soaring 15-story tower will be the new headquarters of Norcross’ company, Conner Strong & Buckelew, and its partners, The Michaels Organization and NFI LP. All three companies are moving to Camden from the suburbs, a little more than 10 miles away.

More

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72398/how-companies-and-allies-of-one-powerful-democrat-got-11-billion-in-tax.html

Notable: GTMO844 returned to Ft.Laud after a quik flight over Vero Beach and back.

GTMO844 returned to Ft.Laud after a quik flight over Vero Beach and back. Maintenance service test flight prior to 110% duty cycle?

>>6382144 (lb)

Notable: The bottom has fallen out on CNN’s ratings.

Terminal stage TDS will do that to you.

"The bottom has fallen out on CNN’s ratings."

Nielsen Media Research released its April ratings for the cable news network and CNN’s ratings fell 26% from the same month a year ago. This month is CNN’s worst ratings since October 2015.

CNN also lost views in the key advertising demographic of 25-54 year olds. CNN finished the month with an average of 767,000 viewers during their prime-time lineup. It had only 198,000 viewers in the key 25-54 year old demographic down from 336,000 a year ago.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cnns-ratings-crater-viewership-at-three-year-low-down-26-from-2018

Notable: Shouldn't This CENTCOM tweet Say Deployment? As in [D]

Shouldn't This CENTCOM tweet Say Deployment?

As in [D]

Notable: New HRC Attempt to change the narrative, Muh immigrants

New HRC

Attempt to change the narrative, Muh immigrants

Seeking asylum is a human right. We shouldn't charge fees to people who are fleeing persecution and violence.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but first give us $50?" No.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/politics/trump-asylum-changes/index.html

Notable: 5 people, including 2 judges, shot, wounded in Indianapolis overnight in separate shootings

5 people, including 2 judges, shot, wounded in Indianapolis overnight in separate shootings

Two judges shot during 'disturbance' outside a White Castle in Indianapolis

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-judges-shot-during-disturbance-outside-indianapolis-white-castle-n1000561

Notable: Toyota, Fiat Chrysler U.S. auto sales fall in March. GM and Ford do not report monthly sales.

Toyota, Fiat Chrysler U.S. auto sales fall in March

April 2 (Reuters) - Major automakers on Tuesday reported weak U.S. sales for March and the first quarter, citing a rough start to the year, but said a robust economy and strong labor market should encourage consumers to buy more vehicles as 2019 rolls on.

Passenger-car sales suffered throughout the January-March quarter compared with the same period in 2018 as Americans continued to abandon them in favor of larger, more comfortable pickup trucks and SUVs, which are far more profitable for automakers.

The two automakers have both launched redesigned pickup trucks. Ford Motor Co has for decades built the single best-selling truck brand in its F-Series trucks, with the Chevy brand a solid No. 2 and Ram a distant third.

In the fourth quarter, the Chevy and Ram brands were tied for second place behind Ford.

GM said versions of its new Silverado pickup trucks that are already on the market rose 20 percent in the first quarter versus sales of the old model in 2018. GM said it is still ramping up production of remaining variants of the truck.

Overall, U.S. new-vehicle sales are expected to decline in 2019 after a long bull run since the end of the Great Recession, led by falling passenger car sales. Competition in the high-margin SUV market is intensifying.

Ford on Tuesday unveiled details of the latest version of its Escape SUV, heavily emphasizing comfort features including a movable rear seat to provide more leg room for passengers, plus consumer-friendly features such as an 8-inch (20.3 cm) touchscreen and Wi-Fi connection for up to 10 devices within 50 feet (15.2m) of the vehicle.

GM's first-quarter sales fell 7 percent, with declines across all brands. Sales of Silverado pickup trucks fell nearly 16 percent and the high-margin Chevy Suburban large SUV dropped 25 percent.

GM and Ford do not report monthly sales.

(sound familiar??..like GOOG not telling anyone what it costs to do it's business)

Ford is due to release its first-quarter sales figures on Thursday. According to industry data, Ford's sales fell 2 percent in the quarter and 5 percent in March.

Ford representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

FCA reported a 7 percent fall in U.S. sales in March and a 3 percent drop for the first quarter. All of FCA's brands dropped in March, except for Ram, which saw a 15 percent increase in pickup truck sales.

"The industry had a tough first quarter, but with spring finally starting to show its face and continued strong economic indicators … we are confident that new vehicle sales demand will strengthen going forward," FCA's U.S. head of sales, Reid Bigland, said in a statement.

Toyota Motor Corp reported a 3.5 percent fall in U.S. sales in March and 5 percent for the first quarter, hurt by declining demand for its Corolla sedans and Camry vehicles.

"While some of our competitors are abandoning sedans, we remain optimistic about the future of the segment," Toyota said in a statement.

(I bet)- kek

https://www.nasdaq.com/article/toyota-fiat-chrysler-us-auto-sales-fall-in-march-20190402-00808

Notable: >>6382946 P EQUALS C - call to dig

P EQUALS C

I come requesting a dig. Help me, anons.

"After the ‘revolutionaries’ executed King Louis XVI… and Queen Marie Antoinette…, her son, [Crown Prince Louis], still a toddler, was placed under house arrest at the Paris Temple. Two years later he was smuggled out in a laundry basket by his doctor,"

"The Prince (who helped smuggle the child) changed his (the child's) name… to Daniel Payseur…"

https://www.truthcontrol.com/house-payseur

Now, when digging on this Daniel Payseur, I noticed that Daniel Payseur and LEWIS CASS look identical. In fact, google images even returns most of the same photos for each. Why? The significance of Lewis Cass is that he was a US senator and had a great deal of influence during Lewis and Clark's time. This is significant because there are a great deal of things in St. Louis named after him. Cass Ave, for example. The St. Louis Arch as well as City Garden are good examples of why St. Louis is a fairly obvious cabal center, and you are invited to look those up for yourself.

What I would like to propose is this: Daniel Payseur = Lewis Cass. P = C.

P = C.

Taking this a step further, Daniel Payseur = Lewis Cass = Crown Prince Louis.

Now, if this bloodline theory is correct, you might expect to find in positions of power, RELATIVES. Well well well, isn't it interesting how the Mayor of St. Louis, LYDA KREWSON looks so much like our Daniel Payseur/Lewis Cass?

What are your eyes telling you, anons? HELP ME DIG ANONS. WHAT IS HER HISTORY?

Notable: anon 'My analysis, FWIW' gets 5:5 roll and notable nom

My analysis, FWIW

Barr can't say it (and must rely on others to say so), but all this caterwauling about Mueller's reasoning for failing to come to a conclusion about obstruction (which Barr says he doesn't understand) elides the basic reality of what happened:

By August 2017, the Mueller probe had determined that there was no collusion, but they carried on with the investigation under the aegis of a classified expanded "scope memorandum" from Rod Rosenstein. They hoped to bring down Trump in any way they could – if not directly then through the ugly investigatory optics, leaks to the traitorous press, and by applying pressure to those around him. In particular it appears they were planning / threatening to indict Trump Jr. on some kind of nonsense if POTUS didn't fall into line.

Whitaker came in and effectively shut it down by overriding the RR classified scope memo and restricting it to what was established under the original DOJ order – which left Mueller and his team effectively empty-handed. And one way or another, it was made clear that RR's role was going to be to stay on through the end of the Mueller investigation and signal his support for the AG's handling of the matter.

Rather than give Trump an unqualified "win," however, Mueller's team decided to construct a report that framed obstruction of justice as something of an open question (which would slot into the idea of endless further Congressional investigation and impeachment noise). The "angry Dems" on Mueller's team simply couldn't help themselves – they simply had to lob a grenade at Trump.

Barr has done his best to defuse that grenade before it could explode in the press. Hence all the caterwauling in today's hearing about what Mueller "wanted." One of the things we now know his team wanted was the release of their "executive summaries" ahead of the full report. If you go back and look at what they contained, it is clear what they were trying to do. By the time the full report came out and showed their obstruction "scenarios" amounted to a Chinese menu containing only nothingburger, the damage would have been done.

The Dems are accordingly frustrated that their opportunity to inflict maximal damage has been largely thwarted. Above all, they are lashing out at Barr in an effort to create an appearance of corruption or bias, which they hope can help them in the months to come. Because they know what is coming.

Notable: Kevin Spacey's Stalker Linda Louise Culkin Dead After Being Struck by Car

Kevin Spacey's Stalker Linda Louise Culkin Dead After Being Struck by Car

The article mentions that Linda Culkin was convicted for the threats she sent to Kevin Spacey and his colleages, but of course it doesn't make any mention of the fact that Culkin was a whistleblower who wrote online about Kevin Spacey sexually abusing underage boys long before it was ever in the mainstream news.

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/23274812-kevin-spacey-s-stalker-linda-louise-culkin-dead-after-being-struck-by-car-

https://www.patriotledger.com/news/20190301/woman-killed-by-car-in-quincy-served-time-for-death-threats

Notable: Cops on motorcycles hunting protesters in Venezuela.

notable?? warning: graphic.

Police in Venesula are murdering people (with flags)?

https://twitter.com/Javierito321/status/1123421245909893120

"Que procede con estos policías que van en sus motos disparando como locos al que va pasando con banderas o gorras? Amnistía?"

Translation: "What do you do with these policemen who go on their motorcycles shooting like crazy people who are passing by with flags or hats? Amnesty?"

Notable: Barr is the Stealth Bomber

Barr is the Stealth Bomber

Notable: >>6382291 DS bitches AS and EW call for Barr to resign for 'misleading american people'-lets hope they soon hang

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1123621320137367552

Notable: >>6382222 anons:[AS]leaking = "Ongoing investigation"= Blackout.(was examiner-AS claim from yest)

[AS] leaking = "Ongoing investigation" = Blackout.

Life lesson not understood Adam?

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1123618128808878081

Notable: >>6382216 "I can land the plane"-Rosenstein, "I’m landing the plane right now"-Barr -see you on tarmac says anon

>>6381955

https://outline.com/Km2MAu

"I can land the plane" - Rosenstein

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/ag-barr-on-the-mueller-report-i-m-landing-the-plane-right-now-1487066179775

"I’m landing the plane right now" - Barr

Notable: GTMO844 departs Ft. Laud

GTMO844 departs Ft. Laud

Notable: WH ordered full sec sweep over listening device threat after MB des islamic terrorist

https://twitter.com/NetworksManager/status/1123595306795450371?s=19

Notable: PapaD - Barr prob seen documentary evidence on Aus and Brit intel before Downer and May 2016

Perpuhderpolous:

Attorney General Barr is a smart man. He has probably already seen documentary evidence that Australian intelligence, British intelligence and US intelligence made contact with me BEFORE Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, was sent to make contact in May 2016 by the FBI.

CST

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1123615244679442432

Notable: anon decode on Minuteman (USAF and Q)

U.S. Air Force Tweet Contains "Minuteman"

Minuteman ties to Lexington & Concord.

I think an Intercontinental missile would qualify as:

The Shot Heard Around The World

Notable: Private payrolls surge by 275k in April, biggest since July

Good news:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/01/private-payrolls-surge-by-275000-in-april-blowing-past-estimates-and-the-biggest-gain-since-july.html

Notable: Foreign and Domestic Terrorists working together against POTUS and USA

>>6381492

Foreign and Domestic Terrorists working together against POTUS and USA

sauce:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5018141/ISIS-connection-anarchists-revealed-Ed-Klein-book.html

Notable: U.S. environment agency says glyphosate weed killer is not a carcinogen

U.S. environment agency says glyphosate weed killer is not a carcinogen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Tuesday that glyphosate, a chemical in many popular weed killers, is not a carcinogen, contradicting decisions by U.S. juries that found it caused cancer in people.

The EPA’s announcement reaffirms its earlier findings about the safety of glyphosate, the key ingredient in Bayer’s Roundup. The company faces thousands of lawsuits from Roundup users who allege it caused their cancer.

“EPA continues to find that there are no risks to public health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label and that glyphosate is not a carcinogen,” the agency said in a statement.

Farmers spray glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in U.S. agriculture, on fields of soybeans and other crops. Roundup is also used on lawns, golf courses and elsewhere.

The EPA did previously find ecological risks from the chemical and has proposed new measures to protect the environment from glyphosate use by farmers and to reduce the problem of weeds becoming resistant to it.

Bayer said it was pleased the EPA and other regulators who have assessed the science on glyphosate for more than 40 years continue to conclude it is not carcinogenic. “Bayer firmly believes that the science supports the safety of glyphosate-based herbicides,” it said in a statement. The company has repeatedly denied allegations that glyphosate and Roundup cause cancer.

But critics of the chemical disputed the EPA’s assurances.

“Unfortunately American consumers cannot trust the EPA assessment of glyphosate’s safety,” said Nathan Donley, a senior scientist at the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity.

Monsanto developed Roundup as the first glyphosate-based weed killer, but it is no longer patent-protected and many other versions are available. Bayer bought Monsanto last year for $63 billion.

The debate over glyphosate’s safety has put a spotlight on regulatory agencies around the world in recent years and, more recently, on U.S. courtrooms.

In 2015, the World Health Organization’s cancer arm classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” But the EPA in 2017 said a decades-long assessment of glyphosate risks found the chemical was not likely carcinogenic to humans.

In February, analysts at Brazilian health agency Anvisa also determined the weed killer does not cause cancer while recommending limits on exposure.

In the first U.S. Roundup trial, a California man was awarded $289 million in August 2018 after a state court jury found the weed killer caused his cancer. That award was later reduced to $78 million and is being appealed by Bayer.

A U.S. jury in March awarded $80 million to another California man who claimed his use of Roundup caused his cancer.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-glyphosate-idUSKCN1S62SU

Notable: Zero Percent of US Corporate Media Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela

This in itself should tell us something

Zero Percent of US Corporate Media Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela

From the beginning, elite media have worked strenuously to narrow the options available for consideration (New York Times, 4/3/19).

A FAIR survey of US opinion journalism on Venezuela found no voices in elite corporate media that opposed regime change in that country. Over a three-month period (1/15/19–4/15/19), zero opinion pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post took an anti–regime change or pro-Maduro/Chavista position. Not a single commentator on the big three Sunday morning talkshows or PBS NewsHour came out against President Nicolás Maduro stepping down from the Venezuelan government.

Of the 76 total articles, opinion videos or TV commentator segments that centered on or gave more than passing attention to Venezuela, 54 (72 percent) expressed explicit support for the Maduro administration’s ouster. Eleven (14 percent) were ambiguous, but were only classified as such for lack of explicit language. Reading between the lines, most of these were clearly also pro–regime change. Another 11 (14 percent) took no position, but many similarly offered ideological ammo for those in support.

The Times published 22 pro–regime change commentaries, three ambiguous and five without a position. The Post also spared no space for the pro-Chavista camp: 22 of its articles expressed support for the end to Maduro’s administration, eight were ambiguous and four took no position. Of the 12 TV opinions surveyed, 10 were pro-regime change and two took no position.

(The Times and Post pieces were found through a Nexis search for “Venezuela” between 1/15/19–4/15/19 using each paper as a source, narrowed to opinion articles and editorials. The search was supplemented with an examination of each outlet’s opinion/blog pages. The TV commentary segments were found through Nexis searches for “Venezuela” and the name of the talkshow during the same time period, in the folders of the corresponding television network: NBC News/CBS Newstranscripts, ABC News transcripts, and PBS NewsHour. Non-opinion TV news segments were omitted. The full list of items included can be found here.)

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72400/zero-percent-of-us-corporate-media-commentators-oppose-regime-change-in.html

Notable: >>6381610 Anons noticing secret service? individual scanning the JUDICAL COMMITTEE. Very strange

This seems to me like a bodyguard.

So Barr needs a bodyguard inside Capitol Hill whe testifying to Congress?

I can't imagine this is standard procedure. This is sick.

Notable: New Documents Reveal DHS Asserting Broad, Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops

New Documents Reveal DHS Asserting Broad, Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops

BOSTON — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU today asked a federal court to rule without trial that the Department of Homeland Security violates the First and Fourth Amendments by searching travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry without a warrant.

The request for summary judgment comes after the groups obtained documents and deposition testimony revealing that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorize border officials to search travelers’ phones and laptops for general law enforcement purposes, and consider requests from other government agencies when deciding whether to conduct such warrantless searches.

“The evidence we have presented the court shows that the scope of ICE and CBP border searches is unconstitutionally broad,” said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Adam Schwartz. “ICE and CBP policies and practices allow unfettered, warrantless searches of travelers’ digital devices, and empower officers to dodge the Fourth Amendment when rifling through highly personal information contained on laptops and phones.”

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/04/new-documents-reveal-dhs-asserting-broad-unconstitutional-authority-to-search-travelers-phones-and-laptops.html

Notable: New FBI Twat w/CAP: China Spy Investigations in every state.

New FBI Tweet - China Spy Investigations in every state.

"Wray said the FBI has China-related economic espionage investigations in nearly all of its 56 field offices and in nearly every industry."

https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1123601890061824003

Notable: >>6381529 Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business

BREAKING

Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business

Notable: US relocates nuclear bombs from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey

US relocates nuclear bombs from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey

The US has relocated B61 type nuclear bombs from the Incirlik military air base in Turkey’s southern Adana Province, Trend reports referring to Turkish media.

It is reported that nuclear bombs have been relocated to Romania. According to media reports, there were 50 B61 nuclear bombs at the Incirlik Air Base.

The nuclear bombs had been stationed there since the late 1960s, five years after the creation of the Incirlik Air Base, as per the agreement between the US and Turkey.

The B61 is a bomb with a variable power level of charge intended for transportation on airplanes, including supersonic ones. It has a body capable of withstanding flight at supersonic speeds. The metallic and welded body has a length of 3.58 m and a diameter of about 33 cm. Its average weight is about 320 kg, but may vary depending on the modification.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/05/us-relocates-nuclear-bombs-from-incirlik-air-base-in-turkey/

Notable: NASA Says Metals Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failure

NASA Says Metals Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failure

A metals manufacturer faked test results and provided faulty materials to NASA, causing more than $700 million in losses and two failed satellite launch missions, according to an investigation by the U.S. space agency.

The fraud involved an Oregon company called Sapa Profiles Inc., which falsified thousands of certifications for aluminum parts over 19 years for hundreds of customers, including NASA.

The bad parts were used in the making of Taurus XL, a rocket that was supposed to deliver satellites studying the Earth’s climate during missions carried out in 2009 and 2011. The launch vehicle’s fairing, a clamshell structure that carries the satellite as it travels through the atmosphere, didn’t fully open, causing the unsuccessful launch, according to a statement from NASA.

“When testing results are altered and certifications are provided falsely, missions fail,” said Jim Norman, director for launch services at NASA in Washington. He added that years of scientific work were lost because of the fraud.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/nasa-says-aluminum-fraud-caused-700-million-satellite-failures

New vocab to remember: metals fraud'

Notable: >>6381320 US Northern and Southern Cmnd twat CAPS: status updates

Defense is keeping us updated via twatter

Notable: Missile turned in at gun buyback in Juárez, Mexico

April 29, 2019: "Missile turned in at gun buyback in Juárez, Mexico":

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/juarez/2019/04/29/juarez-mexico-gun-buyback-missile/3619978002/

WTH? How does some Mexican lady have a missile? Do missiles go missing? Where in the world have missiles gone missing? Sound familiar?

ENTER Libya.

"Thousands of Libyan missiles from Qaddafi era missing in action":

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thousands-of-libyan-missiles-from-qaddafi-era-missing-in-action/?fbclid=IwAR0flToRiDagZyPYUDcBx4esV3H8TWb1y0itwNdvXA6DXrXjTxeTpFcrU7s

"The Stingers of Benghazi":

https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/05/stingers-benghazi-jim-geraghty/?fbclid=IwAR3cmeknfGJbZkXms2m-0jpsm6zENTn3UmbuDLWzVdGLxzVEEsQEUGZwT3g

Did any of the weapons from Libya end up in the cartel's hands? Is the Mexican cartel now arming ANTIFA with stinger missiles?

"FBI Investigating Antifa For Plotting To ‘Stage An Armed Rebellion’ With Guns Purchased From Mexican Cartel":

https://www.dailywire.com/news/46567/fbi-investigating-antifa-plotting-stage-armed-ashe-schow?fbclid=IwAR2DOh_dFjjcwqw47o0NPyCFBg89hTM1ny7dmddCpcioBvxtfMGzSGIXsAg

It is time for the FBI to label ANTIFA as a terrorist organization so the military can be activated to protect Americans. When leftist chaos begins from the FISA DECLAS/OIG Report (Great Awakening), the military can step in under Trump’s orders > Martial Law > Deep State Arrests > PAIN > Justice > Healing > Peace > World Renaissance

Enjoy the show!

https://youtu.be/bnGaA8szCng

Notable: Poynter Institute Wants 515 Outlets Blacklisted, Including Breitbart News

Nolte: Poynter Institute Wants 515 Outlets Blacklisted, Including Breitbart News

Poynter calls this list an “index of unreliable news sites” and is openly calling for advertisers to stop sponsoring these sites, to pull their sponsorship, to put these sites out of business.

If that’s not a blacklist, tell me what is [emphasis added]:

There is simply no question that for over five years, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC, MSNBC, Politico, BuzzFeed, etc., have relentlessly and deliberately misled the American people on the biggest stories of the day…

The Trayvon Martin Hoax

The Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax

Donald Trump Can’t Win

The Russia Collusion Hoax

The Brett Kavanaugh Serial Rapist Hoax

The Covington High School Boys Hoax

And yet, every outlet I listed above that are part of Poynter’s blacklist either got these stories 100 percent correct, as Breitbart News did, or was at least skeptical of them.

But we are the ones these so-called “champions of free expression” are openly calling to be blacklisted, not those who have relentlessly and deliberately lied the public for more than a half-decade.

Which proves this is not a blacklist targeting the unreliable, but a blacklist targeting those who hold ideas the un-American Poynter finds inappropriate and unacceptable.

How else to explain why Poynter wants the Media Research Center blacklisted for bias but not Media Matters?

The Poynter Institute is nothing less than a non-profit version of Joseph McCarthy, Father Coughlin, and Big Brother.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/05/01/nolte-poynter-institute-wants-515-outlets-blacklisted-breitbart-news/

Notable: MN Police Officer Mohamed Noor Found Guilty of Murder of Justine Damond While Responding to her 911 Call

MN Police Officer Mohamed Noor Found Guilty of Murder of Justine Damond While Responding to her 911 Call

Somali American police officer Mohamed Noor shot Aussie Justine Damond in July 2017.

Damond called the police to report a possible assault down the alley behind her home.

When she went out to meet the police car in her pajamas Noor reached over his partner and shot her dead.

Mohamed was the first Somali officer in his precinct.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/mn-police-officer-mohamed-noor-found-guilty-of-murder-of-justine-damond-while-responding-to-her-911-call/

Notable: Teen Molested by Catholic School Teacher Gets Record $8-Million Settlement From LA. Archdiocese

Teen Molested by Catholic School Teacher Gets Record $8-Million Settlement From LA. Archdiocese

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused by the athletic director at her Catholic high school who had continued to work despite prior allegations of misconduct, it was announced Tuesday.

A court finalized the settlement last week of a negligence lawsuit, said David Ring, an attorney for the teenager.

The archdiocese has paid out more than $740 million in sexual abuse settlements over the past 15 years. Ring said the $8 million is the largest payment to a single individual in any of the cases.

“The Archdiocese recognizes that there was serious harm done to the life of the victim-survivor,” the archdiocese said in a statement. “We hope that the settlement will allow her to heal and move forward with her education and lifetime goals. The Archdiocese apologizes for the impact that this caused in her life.”

https://ktla.com/2019/04/16/teen-molested-by-catholic-school-teacher-gets-record-8-million-settlement-from-la-archdiocese/

Notable: POTUS_Schedule twat w/CAP: 10:00 AM ET - Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress – LIVE on C-SPAN3 & @cspanradio

https://twitter.com/45__Schedule/status/1123576650187276288

POTUS_Schedule

‏ @45__Schedule

31m31 minutes ago

10:00 AM ET - Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress – LIVE on C-SPAN3 & @cspanradio:

Wednesday, May 1 at Senate Judiciary Cmte https://cs.pn/2XFOL1P

Notable: U.S. private sector adds 275,000 jobs in April -ADP

U.S. private sector adds 275,000 jobs in April -ADP

(this usually a better gauge of job's as it is not bound to the rolling averages that Commerce dept has with it's release's-it's less "noisey")

May 1 (Reuters) - U.S. private employers added 275,000 jobs in April, well above economists' expectations and the most since last July, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.

Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast the ADP National Employment Report would show a gain of 180,000 jobs, with estimates ranging from 141,000 to 225,000.

Private payroll gains in the month earlier were revised up to 151,000 from an originally reported 129,000 increase.

The ADP figures come ahead of the U.S. Labor Department's more comprehensive non-farm payrolls report on Friday, which includes both public and private-sector employment.

Economists polled by Reuters are looking for U.S. private payroll employment to have grown by 180,000 jobs in April, down from 182,000 the month before. Total non-farm employment is expected to have changed by 185,000.

The unemployment rate is forecast to stay steady at the 3.8 percent recorded a month earlier.

https://www.nasdaq.com/article/us-private-sector-adds-275000-jobs-in-april-adp-20190501-00541

Notable: >>6380779 French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris May Day rally

French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris May Day rally

PARIS (Reuters) - French police fired tear gas to push back masked demonstrators in central Paris on Wednesday as thousands of people used an annual May Day rally to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s policies.

Labor unions and so-called “yellow vest” protesters were on the streets across France just days after Macron outlined policy proposals including tax cuts worth around 5 billion euros ($5.58 billion).

A Reuters witness said riot police used tear gas to disperse a group of hooded and masked protesters that had converged at the front of the traditional May Day union march.

Some protesters wearing hoods or yellow vests responded by throwing projectiles at the police. Television footage showed a van with its windows smashed.

French police had warned on Tuesday of possible May Day clashes with far-left anarchist groups, known as Black Blocs, after calls on social media for radicals to hit the streets.

Authorities said they expected some 2,000 Black Bloc protesters from France and across Europe to turn up on the sidelines of the traditional May Day union rallies. Police had already arrested 88 people on Wednesday morning.

The “yellow vest” protests, named after motorists’ high-visibility jackets, began in November over fuel tax increases but have evolved into a sometimes violent revolt against politicians and a government they see as out of touch.

Many in the grassroots movement, which lacks a leadership structure, have said Macron’s proposals do not go far enough and most of what he announced lacks details.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-may-day-france-protests/french-police-fire-tear-gas-at-protesters-in-paris-may-day-rally-idUSKCN1S73QN?il=0

Notable: ew DJT twat w/CAP: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION. Besides, how can you have Obstruction when not only was there No Collusion (by Trump)…

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123573705697894400

NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION. Besides, how can you have Obstruction when not only was there No Collusion (by Trump), but the bad actions were done by the “other” side? The greatest con-job in the history of American Politics!

Notable: Liftoff of a minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB ni California at 2:42AM PST.

Liftoff of a minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB ni California at 2:42AM local time.

>https://twitter.com/thejackbeyer/status/1123524784849973249

Notable: Jim Jordan: Democrats Already Started Impeachment Proceedings

Jim Jordan: Democrats Already Started Impeachment Proceedings

Ranking House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said Democrats have already begun impeachment proceedings against President Trump.

Speaking with Fox Business host Lou Dobbs last night, Jordan explained that Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s plan to have Judiciary Committee staff ask questions Attorney General William Barr was a way to begin impeachment proceedings.

“…We have to understand the Democrats have already started impeachment proceedings, they’re just not calling it that. And the reason they’re not calling it that is because they know it is not justified and they know the American people don’t want it. But that is what they are doing and that’s why they want the staff to ask Bill Barr questions because that is how it works in the impeachment process. So, that’s what they’re trying to do.”

Jordan also said Barr should not appear at Thursday’s Judiciary Committee hearing if Nadler insists on changing the questioning format.

“…Bill Barr shouldn’t come,” he said. “Look, you can’t the Attorney General for the last three weeks like Democrats have done and then change the format in the last few days like they are trying to do. And expect the Attorney General to show up. Let the members ask the questions if they’re willing to do it the way its always done. Bill Barr will be there. If they’re not, he shouldn’t show up. And I’m 100% for him not showing up if they don’t do it the right way.

Attorney General Barr has threatened not to show up at the hearing after Nadler proposed that Judiciary Committee staff question him.

https://bongino.com/jim-jordan-democrats-already-started-impeachment-proceedings/

Notable: Retired Army major general dies after lawnmower accident

>>6380453

Elite Badass dies from lawnmower

Retired Army major general dies after lawnmower accident

A retired Army major general and a former commander of Delta Force died after a lawnmower accident, according to a report.

Retired Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell, 72, died Monday after his lawnmower rolled over an embankment behind his house Eufaula, Alabama, according to WRBL.

Bargewell’s nearly 40-year military career spanned the wars in Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.

He enlisted in the military in 1967 and served in the Vietnam War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism. According to his award citation, Bargewell placed a deadly volume of machine gun fire that broke an assault by an estimated 75- to 100-man enemy force, despite suffering multiple fragmentation wounds from an exploding B-40 rocket. He again exposed himself to enemy fire during another assault and refused medical treatment to ensure the safe extraction of his team.

He received his officer’s commission in 1973 and went on to command special operations units from team to Special Operations Command level, including as the commanding general of Special Operations Command Europe. His last assignment before retiring was director of strategic operations at HQ’s Multi-National Force-Iraq in Baghdad.

According to the Daily World, Bargewell was the most decorated soldier on active duty at the time of his retirement in 2006.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/05/01/retired-army-major-general-dies-after-lawnmower-accident/?utm_campaign=Socialflow+MIL&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Notable: Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe

https://outline.com/DfCbrb

Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of Mueller’s work, according to a copy of the letter reviewed Tuesday by The Washington Post.

Notable: Anon decodes POTUS tweet storm this morning. Ties back to Q 'TWEET STORM DAY'

Tweet Storm

POTUS has tweeted 67 times already this morning.

Q drop #532 says “Tweet Storm”

Drop #532 is also post No. 19.

“Storm” appears in 19 Q drops.

MAYday!

Notable: White House denies Dems info on security clearance process

=NEWS=

White House denies Dems info on security clearance process

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-denies-security-clearance-process

Notable: Dozens of beehives were attacked and set on fire in Texas over the weekend in an act “beyond comprehension”…

Bees are becoming more news worthy…Baker

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/beehives-in-texas-attacked-set-on-fire-killing-half-a-million-bees-officials-say/ar-AAAKolB?ocid=spartanntp#image=AAAKolB_1|3

Dozens of beehives were attacked and set on fire in Texas over the weekend in an act “beyond comprehension” that killed an estimated half a million bees, officials said.

The beehives were discovered on Saturday morning scattered across the bee yard, the Brazoria County Beekeepers Association (BCBA) wrote on Facebook. Several hives appeared ashen-black and one brood frame floated in the water nearby with bees still caring for the eggs.

“It’s bad enough to think in today’s world this would happen but dumping them over and then setting fire to them is beyond comprehension,” the BCBA said in the post.

The bees are at their most active during this time of year when pollen starts coming in on the trees, which bees use to reproduce, Brackman said. He said it may take at least a year to replace the lost bees and honey.

"Every colony that we lose is a major catastrophe to the environment," Brackman told the station.

Notable: New DJT twat w/CAP: Congress must change the Immigration Laws now, Dems won’t act. Wall is being built…

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123559234128502784

Notable: >>6380585 BARR OPENING STATEMENT and written testimony

>>6380371

TY Baker!!!

Reposting:

Bill Mitchell

‏Verified account @mitchellvii

BARR OPENING STATEMENT:

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1123559724526469120

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5984171/AG-Written-Statement-for-the-Record.pdf" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5984171/AG-Written-Statement-for-the-Record.pdf

Notable: South Carolina may use firing squad as alternative death penalty method

http://www.fox13news.com/news/south-carolina-may-use-firing-squad-as-alternative-death-penalty-method

South Carolina may use firing squad as alternative death penalty method

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina lawmakers are considering legislation that would add firing squads to the state's existing execution methods.

The House Criminal Laws subcommittee on Thursday approved a Senate proposal that also changes South Carolina's default execution method to the electric chair.

Notable: >>6379994, >>6380279 anon compiles POTUS May Day retwat storm. O deltas. 65 Tweets or Re-Tweets in 1h and 15mins

>>6379994

>>6380049

Baker

Compiled

Morse?

Notable: New DJT retwat w/CAP 2: Lou Dobbs: No President in history has endured such vicious personal attacks by political opponents…

New DJT

POTUS on a roll this morning.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123545524924223491

Notable: New DJT twat w/CAP 2: Gallup Poll: 56% of Americans rate their financial situation as excellent or good. This is the highest number since 2002

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123542897960390657

Notable: New DJT twat w/CAP 1: overriding the Decommission Order of the magnificent aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman

>>6380105

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1123540207104667649

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1123542897960390657

May 1, 2019 06:01:15 AM

Gallup Poll: 56% of Americans rate their financial situation as excellent or good. This is the highest number since 2002, and up 10 points since 2016. [Twitter for iPhone]

May 1, 2019 05:50:34 AM

I am overriding the Decommission Order of the magnificent aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, built in 1998 (fairly new), and considered one of the largest and finest in the world. It will be updated at a fraction of the cost of a new one (which also are being built)! [Twitter for iPhone]

Notable: >>6380039, >>6380054 Assange live twats and was sentenced to 50 weeks. extradition mention is tomorrow.

>>6380054

ASSANGE SENTENCED TO 50 WEEKS

https://twitter.com/skymartinbrunt/status/1123537703222566912

Notable: New DJT retwat w/CAP 1: Senator Josh Hawley: The Democrats can’t come to grips with the fact that there was No Collusion, there was No Conspiracy…

New POTUS

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1123536601462788096

Notable: PJDT Mayday Tweet Storm list

MAYDAY Bitches

Buckle up. Tweet storm caught at 45. 6 more came in while typing. look at all them 0 deltas

Notable: 2016 - Obama's Campaign paid $972k to law firm that paid Fusion GPS

Obama’s Campaign Paid $972,000 To Law Firm That Secretly Paid Fusion GPS In 2016

https://thefederalist.com/2017/10/29/obamas-campaign-gave-972000-law-firm-funneled-money-fusion-gps/

Notable: Cosco Shipping to sell Long Beach Container Terminal to Macquarie

>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-27/china-to-invest-3-4-billion-in-dubai-for-trading-initiative

>https://www.wsj.com/articles/cosco-shipping-units-to-sell-u-s-long-beach-container-terminal-for-1-78-billion-11556595995

Q, what did you do?

Notable: Comey's Jobs, Some info & a call for a DIGG

>>6378127 LB

Chemist activated my almonds, too. Especially the mention of carfentanil.

There was a huge bust in Omaha, Nebraska this past November 2018 that wasn't made public until January 2019. Ken Hechtman and his wife were charged with manufacture and possession of 400 grams of carfentanil he purportedly made in his kitchen, and had a sales force of 40+ people, distributing across the Midwest.

This guy definitely needs to have some diggers look at him. Purported genius, kicked out of Columbia University for stealing Uranium 238, journalist, prisoner of the Taliban, witness at Timothy McVey's execution, Canadian citizen. Currently in Federal custody.

Diggers and other high level Anons, please check this out. Love you guys; no homo.

https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-investigators-topple-local-carfentanil-producers-master-distribution-plan/26040904

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/03/afghanistan.jonathansteele

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hechtman (sorry for the wiki link)

All the Court Filings: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6254553/united-states-v-hechtman/

Contemporary article from the Columbia Daily Spectator on his U-238 theft and expulsion from Columbia http://sp>>6378127

Chemist activated my almonds, too. Especially the mention of carfentanil.

There was a huge bust in Omaha, Nebraska this past November 2018 that wasn't made public until January 2019. Ken Hechtman and his wife were charged with manufacture and possession of 400 grams of carfentanil he purportedly made in his kitchen, and had a sales force of 40+ people, distributing across the Midwest.

This guy definitely needs to have some diggers look at him. Purported genius, kicked out of Columbia University for stealing Uranium 238, journalist, prisoner of the Taliban, witness at Timothy McVey's execution, Canadian citizen. Currently in Federal custody.

Diggers and other high level Anons, please check this out. Love you guys; no homo.

https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-investigators-topple-local-carfentanil-producers-master-distribution-plan/26040904

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/03/afghanistan.jonathansteele

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hechtman (sorry for the wiki link)

All the Court Filings: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6254553/united-states-v-hechtman/

Contemporary article from the Columbia Daily Spectator on his U-238 theft and expulsion from Columbia http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19890925-01.2.20&dliv=none&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-

ectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19890925-01.2.20&dliv=none&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-

Notable: RR resignation letter, Thomas Paine & Q Drops

In RR's resignation letter he mentions Thomas Paine - who wrote "Common Sense" which is mentioned a few times int he QMAP

https://twitter.com/verykate44/status/1123068172364599296 - thread about -

anyway - also of note is on Mark Levin yesterday he mentioned getting 1 of 5 copies in existence of the Common Sense pamphlet the - "American Crisis Pamphlet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrfkEhfqT-0 - Trump has been promoting Mark Levin quite a bit lately - anyway, just some interesting "probably not coincidences"

Notable: Full text of new Emperor’s 1st public remarks

>>6379367

>>6379374

>>6379396

Full text of new Emperor’s 1st public remarks

Address by His Majesty the Emperor on the Occasion of the Sokui-go-Choken-no-gi (First Audience after the Accession to the Throne) at the Seiden (State Hall), May 1, 1st Year of Reiwa (2019)

I have hereby succeeded to the Throne pursuant to the Constitution of Japan and the Special Measures Law on the Imperial House Law.

When I think about the important responsibility I have assumed, I am filled with a sense of solemnity.

Looking back, His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus, since acceding to the Throne, performed each of his duties in earnest for more than 30 years, while praying for world peace and the happiness of the people, and at all times sharing in the joys and sorrows of the people. He showed profound compassion through his own bearing. I would like to express my heartfelt respect and appreciation of the comportment shown by His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus as the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people of Japan.

In acceding to the Throne, I swear that I will reflect deeply on the course followed by His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus and bear in mind the path trodden by past emperors, and will devote myself to self-improvement. I also swear that I will act according to the Constitution and fulfill my responsibility as the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people of Japan, while always turning my thoughts to the people and standing with them. I sincerely pray for the happiness of the people and the further development of the nation as well as the peace of the world.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005710470

Notable: >>6379441 Japanese Emperor stepped down; his son will take his place on May 1

Japan's Emporer stepped down and a new Emperor now took his place & start a new era. This hasn't happened in 200+ years.

The abdication ceremony included a mirror, sword, and jewel.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thisisinsider.com/japan-emperor-akihito-abdication-ritual-shinto-gods-2019-4

Notable: Anon ties two Q posts to GOOG’s 10-Q filing (see also GOOGLE BUN)

>>6378924

Excerpts from GOOG’s 10-Q surrounding intellectual property lawsuits from footnote 10 “Contingencies.”

Sounds similar to China stealing United States intellectual property… this reminds me of Q post 3082…

>https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1106247367177764865

We need to keep an eye out for developments on this during Q2 as well, according to Q post 2620.

Notable: >>6379350 Catholic scholars: Pope Francis is guilty of heresy

11:11

Any of you fags see this today?

In a detailed, 20-page, "Open Letter" to all the bishops of the Catholic Church, a group of Catholic scholars, theologians, and clergy have declared that Pope Francis is "guilty of the crime of heresy," and have called on the bishops to investigate the case presented in their letter so they might "free the Church from her present distress."

Notable: Joint Russia-China Naval Drills Kick Off After 2 US Warships Enter Taiwan Strait

Joint Russia-China Naval Drills Kick Off After 2 US Warships Enter Taiwan Strait

Early this week Chinese media confirmed that Russian warships arrived in Qingdao, a port city in East China's Shandong Province, at the start this week's join China-Russia naval exercises.

The Russian fleet included the Varyag guided missile cruiser, a submarine, two anti-submarine ships, a corvette, a landing ship, a tanker and a rescue vessel, according to China's Global Times.

Russian submarine makes a visit to Qingdao Port in China. pic.twitter.com/FgMoWC0Bh9

— Andrew McAlister (@Drumboy44DWS) April 29, 2019

The planned drills, called Naval Cooperation 2019 exercises, set to run April 29 to May 4 come amidst a general thawing and improvement of relations between Moscow and Beijing as both experienced heightened economic and military tensions with the United States of late.

For its part, the PLA Navy (People's Liberation Army) will deploy a submarine, two guided missile destroyers, three guided missile frigates and a submarine rescue ship to participate in the exercises, according to an official PLA statement.

Official descriptions of the drills detail plans for joint training in maneuvering and communication, missile launches, artillery fire at sea, and naval aviation coordination, among other things.

Russia's TASS news agency identified the ships in its fleet that are involved in the joint drills as follows:

A group of Pacific Fleet ships consisting of the flagship Guards Order of Nakhimov missile cruiser Varyag, the large anti-tank ships Admiral Vinogradov and Admiral Tributs, the corvette Sovershenny, the large landing ship Oslyabya, the rescue vessel Igor Belousov and the sea tanker Irkut arrived at the port of Qingdao on a business call several hours ago, and the official opening ceremony for the bilateral Russian-Chinese naval drills ‘Maritime Cooperation 2019’ was carried out.

Interestingly, the joint drills kicked off a mere day after the United States sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait. The USS Stethem and USS William P. Lawrence passed through the contested strait on Sunday, in what US Navy officials called "routine" transit.

"The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," Cdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the Navy's Seventh Fleet said in in a statement. "The US Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows," he added.

Beijing has consistently denounced such US operations as provocations aimed at weakening China's historic claims over Taiwan.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-30/joint-russia-china-naval-drills-kick-day-after-2-us-warships-enter-taiwan-strait

Notable: US cyber spies unmarked many more American identities in 2018

U.S. cyber spies last year unmasked the identities of nearly 17,000 U.S. citizens or residents who were in contact with foreign intelligence targets, a sharp increase from previous years attributed partly to hacking and other malicious cyber activity, according to a U.S. government report released on Tuesday.

The unmasking of American citizens' identities swept up in U.S. electronic espionage became a sensitive issue after U.S. government spying on communications traffic expanded sharply following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and started sweeping up Americans' data.

The report by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said that in 2018 cyber spies at the National Security Agency (NSA) unmasked the identities of 16,721 "U.S. persons," compared to 9,529 unmaskings in 2017 and 9,217 between September 2015 and August 2016.

According to U.S. intelligence rules, when the NSA intercepts messages in which one or more participants are U.S. citizens or residents, the agency is supposed to black out American names. But the names can be unmasked upon request of intelligence officers and higher-ranking government officials, including presidential appointees.

Alex Joel, a DNI official, said it was likely that the higher number of U.S. persons unmasked last year was inflated by names of victims of malicious cyber activity.

Another official said the definition of U.S. person used by spy agencies includes actual individuals, email addresses and internet protocol (IP) addresses.

The expanded collection of data that affected Americans was exposed by whistleblowers like former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, prompting politicians and the public to demand greater accountability.

Annual reports on the extent of NSA and other government electronic surveillance were one notable reform. NSA's operations historically were so secretive that agency employees joked its initials stood for "No Such Agency."

Not long after President Donald Trump took office, Devin Nunes, the Republican who then chaired the House Intelligence Committee, touched off a political flap by claiming intercepted messages involving members of Trump's transition team had been unmasked at the direction of top Obama administration officials.

The report says that the number of "non-US persons" targeted by the U.S. for foreign intelligence surveillance rose to 164,770 in calendar year 2018 compared to 129,080 the year before.

The report adds that not a single FBI investigation was opened on U.S. persons based on NSA surveillance in either 2017 or 2018.

https://www.voanews.com/a/report-us-cyber-spies-unmasked-many-more-american-identities-in-2018/4898764.html

Notable: Ex-CIA officer accused of conspiring with China set for plea

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-cia-officer-accused-of-conspiring-with-china-set-for-plea

Notable: Eric Swalwell: If Barr Doesn’t Testify Before Congress, He Should Be Impeached (Breitbart)

Eric Swalwell: If Barr Doesn’t Testify Before Congress, He Should Be Impeached

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” during coverage of The Washington Post report that special counsel Robert Mueller told Attorney General William Barr his summary “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the probe, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said in light of the report, Barr should be impeached if he does not testify to Congress about his handling of the report.

Swalwell said, “We will hear it from Barr and ultimately from Mueller. If Barr backs out, you are going to get subpoenas. If he doesn’t answer, he will face contempt and think he should face impeachment. If he’s going to say I’m not going to follow the law and Congress, there has to be consequences. I hope it doesn’t come to that, but what do you do when you have enables the president’s worst instincts. You have to speak their language as well. That’s the only thing they understand.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/30/eric-swalwell-if-barr-doesnt-testify-before-congress-he-should-be-impeached/

https://twitter.com/repswalwell/status/760649110487638016

Notable: Omar at ‘Hands Off Ilhan’ Rally: Trump, GOP Created ‘Monsters’ ‘Terrorizing’ Jews and Muslims (Breitbart)

Omar at ‘Hands Off Ilhan’ Rally: Trump, GOP Created ‘Monsters’ ‘Terrorizing’ Jews and Muslims

Black Lives Matter and other anti-Trump groups held a rally on the grounds of the Capitol on Tuesday to call for President Donald Trump to be censured for what he said about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) controversial statement that “somebody did something” on 9-11.

People chanted ‘“Hands off Ilhan” and in a series of speeches blamed the president and Republicans for the rise of “white supremacy masked as white nationalism.” Omar spoke at the event in praise of her homeland of Somalia and said the president and his Party are responsible for recent attacks on synagogues and mosques. “At this moment, the occupant of the White House and his allies are doing everything that they can to distance themselves and misinform the public from the monsters that they created that is [sic] terrorizing the Jewish community and the Muslim community,” Omar said.

Omar said she is criticized because she is a Muslim woman. “I also happen to be a refugee and immigrant from what they call one of the shithole countries,” Omar said, mocking the president for his alleged comments about war-torn countries like Somalia that drive their people out. “The reality is that shithole country raised a very proud, dignified person,” Omar said. “Our circumstances may not always be perfect but that doesn’t lessen our humanity and I am not in the business of defending mine.”

Omar was not as complimentary of the United States. “This is not going to be the country of the xenophobics,” Omar said. “This is not going to be the country of white people.” “This is not going to be the country of the few,” Omar said. “This is the country of the many.” “This is the country that was founded on the history of Native American genocide, on the backs of black slaves but also by immigrants,” Omar said.

According to her website: “Ilhan and her family fled the country’s civil war when she was eight-years-old. They lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for four years before coming to the United States, eventually settling in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis in 1997.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/30/omar-at-hands-off-ilhan-rally-trump-gop-created-monsters-terrorizing-jews-and-muslims/

Notable: Washington Warns Beijing: 'Paramilitary' Fishing Boats Will Now Be Treated Like Combatants (Zerohedge)

Washington Warns Beijing: 'Paramilitary' Fishing Boats Will Now Be Treated Like Combatants

As the US continues its increasingly daring and extremely provocative "freedom of navigation" operations in the Strait of Taiwan and South China Sea, it's also growing more vocal about challenging China's increasingly expansionary military presence in the Pacific. Over the weekend, the US has warned Beijing that the US military would aggressively respond to provocative acts by China's coast guard and fishing boats in the same way it reacts to the Chinese navy.

The threatening posture is aimed at curbing Beijing's increasingly sharp-elbowed approach not just to the South China Sea, which it already effectively dominates, despite the rival claims of several of its neighbors (claims that have been validated by international courts), but in the Pacific more broadly, the FT reports.

Admiral John Richardson, head of the US Navy, said he told his Chinese counterpart, vice-admiral Shen Jinlong, in January that Washington would not treat Chinese fishing boats that work with the People's Liberation Army-Navy any differently from actual Navy ships. This warning wasn't unprovoked: On several occasions, Chinese fishing boats have blocked vessels belonging to the US, Vietnam and the Philippines. They have even rammed and harassed ships, blocked access to lagoons, and participated in the seizure of reefs and shoals.

"I made it very clear that the US navy will not be coerced and will continue to conduct routine and lawful operations around the world, in order to protect the rights, freedoms and lawful uses of sea and airspace guaranteed to all," Adm Richardson told the Financial Times.

China's informal marine militia has been expanding since 2015, when it established a headquarters on the Paracel Islands.

The maritime militia has been strengthened since 2015, when it created a headquarters in the China-administered Paracel Islands, a disputed area in the South China Sea that is also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. It has also received training alongside the Chinese navy and coast guard. In its last annual report on the Chinese military, the Pentagon said the fleet "plays a major role in coercive activities to achieve China’s political goals without fighting."

China has increasingly used the maritime militia because fishing boats are less likely to prompt a military response from the US. But the latest warning significantly raises the stakes for China’s non-navy vessels engaging in aggressive acts.

Defense analysts have long warned about the need for a more effective strategy to counter Beijing's expansionary aims in the Pacific, and Andrew Erickson, a maritime militia expert at the US Naval War College, recently called for the US to "deal with China’s sea forces holistically" by demanding that both military and paramilitary ships follow international rules. He added that the US must "accept some friction and force Beijing to choose" between de-escalating or inflaming tensions.

James Stavridis, a retired US admiral and former NATO commander, said Richardson made the right call.

"It is a warning shot across the bow of China, in effect saying we will not tolerate ‘grey zone’ or 'hybrid' operations at sea," said Mr Stavridis. "A combatant is a combatant is the message, and the CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) is in the right place to warn China early and often."

As is now customary whenever the US ratchets up the pressure on the Chinese Navy, don't be surprised too see a retaliatory show of force in the coming days and weeks.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-29/washington-warns-beijing-paramilitary-fishing-boats-will-now-be-treated-combatants

Notable: Maxine Waters: Barr Should Resign or Be Impeached (Breitbart)

Maxine Waters: Barr Should Resign or Be Impeached

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said in light of the of The Washington Post report that special counsel Robert Mueller told Attorney General William Barr his summary “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the probe, Barr should resign or be impeached.

Waters said, “I think that Barr should resign. If he does not resign, he should be facing impeachment proceedings also. He has abdicated on his responsibility. He’s lied. He has used the very words coming right out of the president’s mouth, ‘no collusion, no collusion, no collusion.’ And made a decision that despite what the counsel put into that report about obstruction of justice, he said he made the decision that he had not obstructed justice. It is outrageous, and he needs to go.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/30/maxine-waters-barr-should-resign-or-be-impeached/

Notable: FAA bars flights over Venezuela airspace amid political turmoil

FAA bars flights over Venezuela airspace amid political turmoil

https://nypost.com/2019/05/01/faa-bars-flights-over-venezuela-airspace-amid-political-turmoil/

Notable: 27 West Virginia Hospitals Join Together To Sue Opioid Companies Including Purdue Pharma

27 West Virginia Hospitals Join Together To Sue Opioid Companies Including Purdue Pharma

Twenty-seven West Virginia hospitals and 10 affiliated Kentucky hospitals joined together to sue opioid companies for monetary damages, including Purdue Pharma, Monday. “Imagine what the hospitals — who are the entities of last resort — have gone through as part of this [opioid] crisis,” said the hospitals’ lawyer, Stephen B. Farmer, according to the Associated Press. “Their day-to-day ability to treat people effectively has been completely disrupted by the whole spate of opioid issues that come through their doors every day.” The hospitals say the opioid companies, some of the largest in the country, inundated the Appalachian region with the prescription pain pills. West Virginia has the highest age-adjusted opioid overdose rate in the country.

The suit is the first one brought by a big group of hospitals against opioid companies, the hospitals’ lawyers said. The suit cites statistics claiming the number of opioid-related emergency room visits has doubled nationally, blaming unlawful marketing and distribution for millions of dollars in uncompensated care hospitals have to shoulder, reported the AP. The hospitals are seeking “that the responsible parties be held accountable for the role they’ve played in this crisis,” Ronald Pellegrino, chief operating officer at WVU Hospitals, said.

Distributors AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health as well as the Sackler family, which controls Purdue Pharma, are additional defendants named in the suit, reported the AP.

AmerisourceBergen responded to the hospitals’ suit in a statement. “A significant number of these doctors – 38 percent in the U.S. – are employed by hospitals, which is where in many cases they prescribe, fulfill through distributors, and then dispense medications to patients,” the statement reads according to the AP. “This is why hospitals pursuing legal action related to opioid abuse against other members of the supply chain is counterproductive and ignores the facts.” Other prescription opioid makers are starting to face lawsuits like the ones brought against Purdue Pharma. An Oklahoma suit against several drugmakers paints Johnson & Johnson as an opioid “kingpin,” according to media reports in mid-March. The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Purdue Pharma but did not receive a response at the time of publication.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/30/opioid-lawsuit-purdue-2019/

Notable: Hunter Biden splits from brother Beau’s widow Hallie

Hunter Biden splits from brother Beau’s widow Hallie

https://pagesix.com/2019/04/30/hunter-biden-splits-from-brother-beaus-widow-hallie/?_ga=2.95296988.1974844009.1556242323-1253037929.1549333005

Notable: >>6378959, >>6378930 Bill Barr prepared remarks for tomorrow's Senate hearing.

>>6378073 lb

Bill Barrs prepared remarks for tomorrows Senate hearing.

https://www.scribd.com/document/408241110/AG-Written-Statement-for-the-Record#fullscreen&from_embed

>No collusion

>No obstruction

>No more investigation by DOJ

>but for cases handed to OTHER OFFICES!!!

Notable: 424 Migrants Apprehended at Border – ‘Largest Group,’ Says CBP

424 Migrants Apprehended at Border – ‘Largest Group,’ Says CBP

El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended what they are calling the “largest group of 424 illegal aliens” at the New Mexico border on Tuesday morning. A few hours later, agents patrolling near Antelope Wells, New Mexico, apprehended another 230.

Agents patrolling near Sunland Park shortly after midnight Tuesday morning encountered what they believed to be more than “400 illegal aliens” who had just crossed the border from Mexico. The agents rounded up all of the migrants and began processing them. A few hours later, the count stood at 424 mostly Central American migrants. Border Patrol officials tweeted this is the “largest group” of illegal aliens apprehended by Border Patrol agents.

While the agents processed the Sunland Park migrant group, agents patrolling near the Camp Bounds Forward Operating Base at the Antelope Wells Port of Entry apprehended another large group of Central American migrants. This group, apprehended at about 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, consisted of 230 illegal aliens, officials stated.

El Paso Sector officials said the two groups, like many of the large groups of migrants, consisted of Central American family units and unaccompanied minors.

The El Paso Sector has witnessed a 1,670 percent increase in the number of Family Unit Aliens apprehended during the first six months of this fiscal year, according to the March Southwest Border Migration Report. Agents apprehended 53,565 family units during the first six months of this year as compared to 3,027 during the same period in Fiscal Year 2018. In addition, the sector witnessed a 333 percent increase in the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended — 7,565 in FY2019 vs. 1,746 in FY2018.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/04/30/424-migrants-apprehended-at-nm-border-largest-single-group-say-bp/

Notable: Journalist Claims Media, Government Are Lying About Venezuela

Journalist Claims Media, Government Are Lying About Venezuela

A freelance journalist who spent a month this year in Venezuela accused the U.S. government and media of distorting the ongoing crisis in the country, during a Tuesday night appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show. Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaidó called for a military uprising against socialist dictator Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday. Maduro is viewed by the Trump administration to be an illegitimate leader after they determined his re-election to be full of fraud and corruption.

“Your viewers won’t be shocked to hear this, Tucker, but the fake news media are lying about the situation in Venezuela,” stated Anya Parampil, who was in Venezuela in February. “Let me put it for you this way. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had refused to admit defeat after losing to President Trump in 2016 and banded together a group of 24 U.S. soldiers and attempted to take the White House by force. I don’t think that she would be walking freely on the streets the way that Juan Guaido is right now in Caracas and I certainly think that the news media will be calling it rightfully a coup.” “The opposition has no popular support. Juan Guaido proves today once again that he will only ride into power on the back of the U.S. tank and what’s more we hear about a humanitarian crisis there, Tucker, but we never hear is that is the intended result of U.S. sanctions, which have targeted Venezuela since 2015,” she continued. “President Trump if he truly cared about the American — or the Venezuelan people, and American people for that matter, he would end this disastrous policy, he would end the sanctions and he would look into John Bolton’s eyes, into Elliot Abrams’ eyes and Mike Pompeo’s eyes and say, you are fired.”

Columbia, Peru and Brazil came out in support of the military uprising in Venezuela against Maduro. Following opposition forces beginning a military operation to overthrow Maduro, Venezuela’s neighbors endorsed Guaidó, and called for a meeting to address the military uprising. The Daily Caller followed up with Parampil and asked her to explain why she believes the United States is backing Guaido. She said: Regime change has had bipartisan support in countries that resist the US sphere of influence from Yugoslavia to Iraq to Libya to Syria, and now Venezuela. Because Guaido and his shadow administration have promised to privatize Venezuela’s natural resources, which include the largest oil reserves in the world, he satisfies foreign policy elites in both parties, as well as their corporate paymasters. Bolton has even admitted that US companies would like to get their hands on Venezuela’s oil. It is their interests which many elected Democrats and Republicans both represent: not the desires of the Venezuelan people, and certainly not the US public, which elected Trump because he promised to end these wars. It is time for Trump to fire his national security team—which is lying to him—and abandon this failed and destructive coup policy. Not only is his legacy as president at stake, but the lives of millions of Venezuelans hang in the balance. They will be the first casualties if the deadly sanctions continue or if the regime change operation escalates into a military intervention.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/30/venezuela-guaido-maduro-tucker-trump/

Notable: Zerohedge on forthcoming Horowitz report

The next bombshell report to drop from the Justice Department likely will earn none of the breathless fanfare and media coverage that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report received, but it could be far more incriminating.

In the next several weeks, Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to issue his summation of the potential abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by top officials in the Obama Administration and holdovers in the early Trump Administration who were overseeing the investigation of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

And the perpetrators of the so-called FISAgate scandal now are scrambling for cover as the bad news looms.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-30/real-bombshells-are-about-hit-their-targets

On December 9 and 10, 2016, the New York Times and the Washington Post independently reported that anonymous senior intelligence officials had told them that, based on intercepted communications, the intelligence agencies agreed that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee to help Donald Trump win the election. Their evidence was the fact of their access to U.S communications intelligence. A flood of subsequent stories also cited allegations by “senior intelligence officials” that “intercepted communications” and “intercepted calls” showed that “members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.”

Incontrovertibly, the officials who gave these stories to the Times and Post violated the Comint Statute, and are subject to the “10 and 10” for each count. There is no clearer instance of what the governing law is, of how it was violated, and of the punishment that this incurs.

Consequently, there is no clearer indictment of our legal system than the fact that no one has been prosecuted for these violations, much less punished.

Nor is there any doubt as to who at least two of these “senior intelligence officials” are: Former CIA director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Beginning in January 2017, Brennan and Clapper made essentially the same statements on national television. The only possible excuse—that their allegations were lies—is irrelevant because the essence of the violation is the revelation that U.S intelligence was monitoring the communications of the Russians in America, and those of the Trump campaign as well. This is true, and that revelation is a textbook violation of the Comint Statute.

The reasons no prosecutions have followed should be plain enough. The offenders are big people, in the permanent government and in the Democratic Party. They have a great many friends in the U.S Justice Department. From the top down, the Trump Administration has been filled by much smaller people. Loud words aside, the president has kowtowed to the intelligence agencies in every way imaginable. No prominent Republican has chosen to challenge the de facto privileged relationship between Democrats in the intelligence agencies and the media.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-30/why-are-clapper-and-brennan-not-jail

The NWO and globalization has been happening for some time now, but there always appears to be a moment when the agenda’s rhetoric is ramped up to disturbing levels, complete with apocalyptic death.  Even leftist totalitarian comedians like Bill Maher have joined in the horrific agenda pushing by saying he just wants people to, “Not have kids, DIE, and stay dead.” Maher said humans hurt the environment, so the solution is for them to die. (Did Maher forget he’s a human?) “As he argued that humans hurt the environment, he concluded that it would be better for Earth for more people to ‘not have kids, die and stay dead,’” reports NewsBusters.org.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-29/new-world-orders-global-annihilation-agenda-ramping

Notable: An Insider’s Perspective On President Trump’s Transformation Of The Federal Judiciary

During the first two years of his presidency, two Supreme Court justices and 83 lower-court judges secured confirmation, in the 115th Congress. In the second half of his term to date, the 116th Congress, he’s seen 12 judges confirmed, bringing his total number of Article III judicial appointees to 97. With the Senate now back from its Easter recess and with 43 nominees out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and awaiting floor votes, President Trump should hit — and, in fact, blow past — the 100-judge marker very soon.

President Trump will go down in history as an extremely effective and consequential president on judicial nominations, even if his administration ends tomorrow (as many of his detractors fervently hope). But he shouldn’t get all the credit for confirmations; so much of it belongs to his former White House Counsel, Don McGahn, and the Senate Republicans, ably led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).

They’re not the only ones who deserve kudos. Congratulations — and thanks, if you’re a supporter of the Trump appointments — should also go to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The SJC plays a key gatekeeper role when it comes to judicial nominations, and then-Chairman Grassley worked tirelessly to keep that gate open for Trump’s judicial picks in the last Congress, even in the face of strong Democratic opposition.

Gratitude also goes to the wind beneath the senators’ wings: the staffers who work tirelessly, for much less pay than they could earn in the private sector, to make sure the senators can do their jobs effectively. (Senator Amy Klobuchar, we’re looking at you.)

A critical staffer on judicial nominations, Mike Davis, former Chief Nominations Counsel to then-Chairman Grassley, spoke earlier this month before the Columbia Federalist Society. I refer to Davis as “critical,” but that might be an understatement. He played a crucial role in the Trump judicial revolution, which is why the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) recently honored him with the 2019 Betty Murphy Award.

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/04/an-insiders-perspective-on-president-trumps-transformation-of-the-federal-judiciary/